Jamaica
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Jamaica is a British Independent Territory that retains...
- News items in the archive
- 122
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Jamaica is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 122 news items on Jamaica, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 26, 2022JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: LIFE SENTENCE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DEATH PENALTY – CHANG
While not ruling out a return to the death penalty, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says imposing a life sentence will be more effective in the drive towards eradicating crimes and criminality in the society.
- JANUARY 1, 2020JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- JANUARY 1, 2019JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- JANUARY 1, 2018JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- JANUARY 1, 2017JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- JANUARY 1, 2016JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- JANUARY 1, 2015JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- APRIL 1, 2014JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
a former Jamaica Defence Force soldier, Leslie Moodie, had his death sentence commuted to life
a former Jamaica Defence Force soldier, Leslie Moodie, had his death sentence commuted to life
- JANUARY 1, 2014JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- APRIL 19, 2013JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
the Government has once again tabled Bills in the House of Representatives...
the Government has once again tabled Bills in the House of Representatives...
- JANUARY 1, 2013JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
- AUGUST 7, 2012BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES URGED TO IMPOSE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean
- MARCH 26, 2012JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: CHILD KILLER'S DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED
In Jamaica, the death sentence of convicted St Mary child killer Jeffery Perry was overturned
- JANUARY 1, 2012JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states, "No person shall intentionally be deprived of his life save in execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted".
- JULY 28, 2011JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: PM: GRUESOME MURDERS WARRANT DEATH PENALTY
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding suggested that the perpetrators of gruesome killings, like beheadings, should face the death penalty.
- APRIL 5, 2011JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
after 16 years of debate inside and outside of Parliament...
after 16 years of debate inside and outside of Parliament...
- JANUARY 1, 2011JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states, "No person shall intentionally be deprived of his life save in execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted".
- DECEMBER 20, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: MAN BEATS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Peter Dougal, 41, farmer and construction worker of Santoy district, had his 2007 death sentence for murdering former Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association president Lloyd G. Brown...
- DECEMBER 20, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: MAN BEATS DEATH SENTENCE
Kingston labourer Peter Dougal, 41, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Jamaican Court of Appeal. He was sentenced for murdering Lloyd G. Brown, and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell in St Andrew on June 5, 2005.
- AUGUST 26, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: EX-SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH
Jamaican Supreme Court Justice Horace March sentenced ex-soldier Leslie Moodie
- MAY 7, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Aandre Reid, alias 'Chadwick Gordon', was sentenced to death by High Court Justice Gloria Smith in Jamaica for robbing, raping and murdering two women.
- JANUARY 20, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: DEATH PENALTY FOR LYN MURDERS
Lennox Swaby, 28, farmer and taxi driver, and Calvin Powell, 26, garbage truck driver, both from Manchester, Jamaica, were sentenced to death for murder.
- JANUARY 1, 2010JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states, "No person shall intentionally be deprived of his life save in execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted".
- NOVEMBER 9, 2009JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: MASTERMIND BEHIND ACP KAMEKA'S MURDER GETS DEATH PENALTY
Massimassa Adams, 26, was sentenced to death by the Home Circuit Court in Jamaica for masterminding the murder of Assistant Commissioner, Gilbert Kameka, 48.
- JANUARY 18, 2009JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA PLANS TO HANG CONVICTED CHILD KILLER
a man convicted of killing three children in Jamaica was sentenced to hang, in the first death sentence
- JANUARY 1, 2009JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states...
On the issue of capital punishment, the Jamaica Constitution states, "No person shall intentionally be deprived of his life save in execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted".
- DECEMBER 19, 2008JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICAN MPS VOTE TO KEEP DEATH PENALTY
Jamaica's senate voted to retain the death penalty, a punishment that has not been carried out in the country
- DECEMBER 12, 2008JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: DEATH PENALTY DENIES DUE PROCESS OF LAW- SENATOR MEADOWS
debate on the death penalty continued in the Jamaican Senate with Government Senator, Dennis Meadows, arguing that capital punishment denies due process of law, as it deprives an individual the benefit of new evidence, or new law, that might warrant the r
- DECEMBER 11, 2008JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY COULD CHOKE FOREIGN AID TO JAMAICA - JUNIOR MINISTER
junior Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr Ronald Robinson...
- DECEMBER 1, 2008JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: KEEPING DEATH PENALTY WILL NOT CUT MURDER RATES
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warned Jamaicans not to expect a reduction in murders because of the recent decision by members of the House of Representatives to retain the death penalty.