Trinidad & Tobago
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 · Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory...
- News items in the archive
- 145
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Trinidad & Tobago 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 145 news items on Trinidad & Tobago, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
NOVEMBER 13, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: CHARFORD COURT MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2009 OXFORD STREET MURDER
A Charford Court man has been convicted of the 2009 murder of Michael “Boy Boy” Mader in Port of Spain.
- OCTOBER 10, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
CARIBBEAN CHURCH APPEALS FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Leela Ramdeen, consultant with the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) in Trinidad & Tobago writes: The World Day against the Death Penalty will be observed on Thursday October 10. The 2024 Theme is: The Death Penalty protects no one. Abolish it
MARCH 11, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: EIGHT FORMER DEATH ROW INMATES IMMEDIATELY RELEASED
Eight former death row inmates in Trinidad and Tobago have been released after 22 years’ imprisonment, DSC reported on March 4, 2024.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: LONGEST SERVING DEATH ROW PRISONER RELEASED BY HIGH COURT
On 14 November 2023, Wenceslaus James, the longest serving death row inmate in the country, was released by order of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago. Convicted for murder in 1996, Wenceslaus received the mandatory death sentence for the offence.
AUGUST 18, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: FOUR CONVICTED KILLERS REMOVED FROM DEATH ROW
Four convicted killers housed in the condemned section of the Port of Spain prison at Frederick Street for decades have had their death sentences vacated
JULY 25, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2011 MURDER
Trinity Lewis, also known as "Prack," on July 22, 2023 was sentenced to hang by Justice Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo after she found him guilty of murdering Mark Anthony Songui on December 1, 2011, at Upper First Trace, Maingot Road, Tunapuna.
FEBRUARY 8, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2-YEAR-OLD SON
A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Trinidad and Tobago for fatally beating his two-year-old son in 2008.
- JULY 27, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 9-MONTH-OLD STEPSON
A Trinidad man has been found guilty of murder and his former common-law wife guilty of manslaughter over the death of his nine-month-old stepson, who was beaten to death in 2008, The Guardian (TT) reported on July 26, 2022.
JUNE 6, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The High Court of Trinidad and Tobago on 2 June 2022 sentenced to death two brothers after they were both found guilty of murdering a man and attempting to kill the victim’s brother and cousin 12 years ago.
MAY 18, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: PRIVY COUNCIL RULES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONAL
The Privy Council has ruled that the mandatory sentence of death for murder in Trinidad and Tobago is constitutional, and only Parliament can reform and update the laws.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING TEENAGERS
A Tobago man on 28 July 2021 was sentenced to hang for the 2009 double murder of two teenage boys whose bodies were found close to each other at French Fort, Scarborough.
DECEMBER 18, 2019Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 5 MEN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER
Five death sentences were read out on 17 December 2019 to the five men convicted of the murder of businessman Dr Eddie Koury in September 2005.
MARCH 21, 2019Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER FREED FOR 2006 MURDER
One man was sentenced to hang for a 2006 murder while his co-accused walked free after a Port of Spain jury returned its verdict on 12 February 2019.
FEBRUARY 1, 2019Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR 2008 MURDER
A San Juan man has been sentenced to hang for the 2008 murder of URP labourer Sean Joel Pollard, Newsday reported on 30 January 2019.
JULY 30, 2018Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: SENTENCED TO HANG FOR KILLING TEEN; MAN LOSES APPEAL
A Chaguanas man who was sentenced to hang in March 2014, for the murder of 13-year-old Parmanand ‘‘Boyo’’ Persad, whose body was discovered in a partially built Chaguanas house, in 2006, has lost his appeal.
- MAY 11, 2018Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
EU PRESSURES TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
The European Union has urged Trinidad and Tobago to abolish the death penalty, saying that the bloc does not believe that capital punishment deters crime.
- JANUARY 1, 2018Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
MARCH 16, 2017Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: PM KEITH ROWLEY SUPPORTS DEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said he supports the death penalty and that his Administration is working towards having it implemented as it moves to deal with those citizens bent on committing murder “with impunity” in Trinidad and Tobago.
- JANUARY 1, 2017Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
JULY 1, 2016Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING PROBATION OFFICER
San Fernando High Court found Jason Housten, 36, guilty and sentenced him to hang for the murder of
JUNE 14, 2016Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: EDWARDS FREED AFTER THE PRESIDENT DIRECTED THE COURT OF APPEAL TO RECONSIDER HIS CASE
Albert Edwards who was convicted of murder in 1988, has been freed by the Trinidad Court of Appeal.
- JANUARY 1, 2016Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
JULY 22, 2015Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE
Uriah Woods was sentenced to death in Tobago for the murder of his wife Sandra Miller and attempted
JULY 18, 2015Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: COURT SENTENCES LAVENTILLE MAN TO HANG OVER A 2006 MURDER
the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has stated that Sheldon Lloyd Carter, of Upper St. Barbs
- JULY 16, 2015Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD: PRIVY COUNCIL REFUSES TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCE...FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS
For the first time in 22 years, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), by a majority ruling,
- JANUARY 1, 2015Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
MARCH 26, 2014Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING BOY
The death sentence was read to a Chaguanas man at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain after he was found
- FEBRUARY 16, 2014Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: KILLER TO BE RESENTENCED
A man convicted of murder in Trinidad and Tobago in 2008 will be resentenced after the Privy Council
- JANUARY 1, 2014Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2013Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: PIXIE'S KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The man who raped 16-year-old Pixie Lakhan six times over four hours before strangling her with