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
- FEBRUARY 13, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH
Marlon Peters, Ian Little, an auto body technician of South Oropouche, and David George Huggins, a labourer of Carlton Lane, San Fernando, were sentenced to death by Justice Herbert Volney in the San Fernando First Assize Court, Trinidad & Tobago.
- JANUARY 1, 2009Trinidad & 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.
- AUGUST 20, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
the Trinidad and Tobago government says it will seek to amend existing legislation to make it easier to carry
the Trinidad and Tobago government says it will seek to amend existing legislation to make it easier to carry
- AUGUST 15, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: 52 ESCAPE DEATH ROW
fifty-two people in Trinidad & Tobago convicted of murder had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment after Justice Nolan Bereaux at the Port-of-Spain High Court ruled in favour of a Constitutional motion brought by the prisoners, that they be
- MARCH 31, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. TWO MEN TO HANG FOR MURDER
a Trinidad and Tobago judge sentenced two men to hang for the 2003 murder of
- MARCH 6, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: PRIVY COUNCIL ALLOWS APPEALS IN DEATH PENALTY CASE
the Privy Council in London allowed an appeal in a death penalty case referred to it from Trinidad and Tobago
- MARCH 5, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD: DEATH SENTENCE FOR ICE-PICK MURDER
Reed Richards, 35, was sentenced to death for the murder of 56 year old taxi-driver Roland Marshall, who was stabbed more than 40 times with an ice-pick.
- JANUARY 30, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. FINGERPRINT LEADS TO DEATH SENTENCE
a 24 year old man in Trinidad, who was identified by a fingerprint
- JANUARY 16, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
the death penalty is not the answer to crime and will not reduce criminal activity...
the death penalty is not the answer to crime and will not reduce criminal activity...
- JANUARY 16, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: RAMESH: PM'S HANGING PLAN A NATIONAL JOKE
Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Chief Whip Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said "it is a national joke for the Prime Minister, in a situation where there is a ten per cent...
- JANUARY 15, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. HANGINGS MAY RESUME
The Patrick Manning government wants to use its new term in office to ensure
- JANUARY 1, 2008Trinidad & 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.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago voted against...
Trinidad and Tobago voted against...
- NOVEMBER 2, 2007Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
the Congress of the People (COP) says if elected it will give citizens...
the Congress of the People (COP) says if elected it will give citizens...
- JULY 19, 2007Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE FOR COP WHO SHOT PARTYING YOUTH
Acting Chief Justice Roger Hamel-Smith of the Appeal Court in Trinidad &...
- MARCH 30, 2007Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING JAMAICAN FRIEND
Kelloy Koon Koon was sentenced to death in Trinidad for the murder of his friend Mark Brown, whom he
- MARCH 28, 2007Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Andrew Kanhai, 32, was sentenced to death in Trinidad...
Andrew Kanhai, 32, was sentenced to death in Trinidad...
- JANUARY 1, 2007Trinidad & 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.
- DECEMBER 4, 2006Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER
Deochan Ganga, 25, a fisherman, and Dinesh Benjamin, 24, a gardener...
- MARCH 21, 2006Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER
Constable Dave Burnett, a Trinidad and Tobago police officer with 13 years experience, was sentenced to hang after being found guilty of the murder.
- JANUARY 1, 2006Trinidad & 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.
- JUNE 19, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. GOVERNMENT’S HANGING DECISION AN ACT OF DESPERATION, CATHOLIC NEWS
the Government's decision to resume hangings is an act of desperation and political expediency, according to a page one editorial in Trinidad and Tobago’s Catholic News.
- JUNE 14, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. GOVERNMENT CRITICISED OVER DECISION TO RESUME HANGINGS
the Patrick Manning administration was warned that Trinidad and Tobago's reputation in the international community could be in jeopardy, if the government insisted on acting against a civilized judicial system.
- JUNE 13, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. JUDGE TEMPORARILY BARS THE HANGING OF CONVICTED MURDERERS
High Court judge Ian Benjamin ordered that Trinidad and Tobago not carry out any executions for at least four days.
- JUNE 10, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. PITMAN RECEIVES STAY OF EXECUTION
the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago granted convicted murderer Lester Pitman a stay of execution following the production of a notice of appeal filed by his lawyers on April 22 which the State said it had never received.
- JUNE 7, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. GOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO RESUME HANGINGS
faced with a murder occurring almost every day, the Trinidad and Tobago government announced a series of new crime fighting measures including the resumption of hangings.
- JUNE 7, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. STATE TO PAY WOMAN 'TOO LONG IN DEATH ROW'
following an Appeal Court ruling, it emerged that Trinidad and Tobago would have to compensate Angela Ramdeen, a woman who remained on death row for more than five years, because of the State's failure to inform her that she could no longer be executed.
- APRIL 27, 2005Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. OPPOSITION LEADER AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
it was reported that Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday was against instituting the death penalty for kidnapping.
- JANUARY 1, 2005Trinidad & 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.
- OCTOBER 3, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Kenrick London and his wife Chandroutie, who were convicted...
Kenrick London and his wife Chandroutie, who were convicted of the murder of Chandroutie's sister Meena Sookoo, in Trinidad and Tobago, had their sentences of death by hanging commuted to life imprisonment by the Court of Appeal