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
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Even though the Privy Council ruled almost three months...
Even though the Privy Council ruled almost three months ago that the death sentences of 86 convicted killers be commuted to life imprisonment, the order has not yet been carried out
- JULY 30, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted...
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted murderer, Boodram Bedassie, 64, who had spent more than 17 and a half years on death row for a murder he committed in 1972
- JULY 14, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Two Trinidadian men were sentenced to die by hanging...
Two Trinidadian men were sentenced to die by hanging for the murder of a former BBC anchorwoman, her mother and her brother-in-law
- JUNE 8, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council was expected to hand...
The London-based Privy Council was expected to hand down a ruling that would affect the imposition of the death penalty in several Caribbean countries, according to a statement issued by the Barbados government
- NOVEMBER 20, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of prisoners on death row in the Caribbean...
Hundreds of prisoners on death row in the Caribbean were given new hope as the Privy Council in Britain declared the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago unconstitutional
- MAY 8, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to hang in Trinidad and...
Three people were sentenced to hang in Trinidad and Tobago for the 1996 murder of Clint Huggins, a former state's witness in a much-publicized murder trial
- APRIL 19, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by...
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by Bimal Roy Paria, a 29-year-old man in Trinidad and Tobago, who had been sentenced to death for killing his common law wife, her mother and sister on 24 July 1998
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad...
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad and Tobago was drafting new legislation to allow for the execution of convicted killers
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former...
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney-General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj of double standards on the issue of state executions
- JANUARY 1, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory...
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the last court of appeal
- OCTOBER 28, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Dana Seetahal, an independent legislator and former...
Dana Seetahal, an independent legislator and former magistrate here told the Senate that she has been lobbying the Mercy Committee that is chaired by the Minister of National Security for a number of years to pardon convicted killers who had spent 16 year
- OCTOBER 17, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Privy Council has quashed the death sentence on...
The Privy Council has quashed the death sentence on two Trinidadian men contending that their defence lawyers had failed to include good character evidence during their trial
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition of the death penalty, said it was deeply concerned over allegations of brutality and mistreatment of a Trinidadian death row inmate and called on the authorities to launch an investigation into the matt
- JULY 18, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Outgoing Chief Justice Michael de La Bastide said that...
Outgoing Chief Justice Michael de La Bastide said that while the death sentence is a "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of basic human rights provisions, it could only be changed by parliament
- JULY 15, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
A regional Caribbean human rights group welcomed an...
A regional Caribbean human rights group welcomed an Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) order that Trinidad and Tobago [must] update its laws on the death penalty, in compliance with international standards
- JULY 11, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Trinidad and Tobago government will not be compensating...
The Trinidad and Tobago government will not be compensating the family of executed murderer Joey Ramiah, Attorney-General Glenda Morean told reporters
- JULY 10, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago's attorney general said the government...
Trinidad and Tobago's attorney general said the government would wait for courts to test a ruling by a human rights tribunal telling the country not to execute 32 death row prisoners
- JULY 9, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Trinidad and Tobago government said it was still...
The Trinidad and Tobago government said it was still awaiting the ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) that has ordered it to pay 50,000 US dollars to support and educate the son of an executed multiple murderer
- MARCH 14, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Privy Council ruling of March 11 that the mandatory...
The Privy Council ruling of March 11 that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in the eastern Caribbean may benefit around 70 prisoners awaiting execution in Trinidad
- MARCH 11, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC)...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) delivered judgments in the appeals of Peter Hughes (St Lucia), Berthill Fox (St Kitts and Nevis) and Patrick Reyes (Belize)
- JANUARY 1, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory...
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the last court of appeal
- DECEMBER 15, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Under pressure from voters over rising violent crime,...
Under pressure from voters over rising violent crime, several Caribbean governments, including Trinidad, have joined forces to create a regional court to ease the application of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The ten men sentenced to death on August 7 for the...
The ten men sentenced to death on August 7 for the murder of Thackoor Boodram form the single largest group sentenced to death for one murder in the history of Trinidad and Tobago
- AUGUST 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a...
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a jury in Port of Spain found them guilty of killing a man they had kidnapped and held for ransom
- MARCH 23, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Kenrick London, 37, and his wife Chandrouti, 28, were...
Kenrick London, 37, and his wife Chandrouti, 28, were sentenced to hang after they were convicted of killing their 2-year-old daughter by burying her alive in an outhouse cesspit
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago signed an agreement during the...
Trinidad and Tobago signed an agreement during the opening of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) leaders' 12th inter-sessional summit to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)
- JANUARY 1, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory...
Trinidad and Tobago is a British Independent Territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the last court of appeal
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ishmael Samad, contesting the Couva South seat, said...
Ishmael Samad, contesting the Couva South seat, said the election was an opportunity for him to champion his beliefs
- JUNE 4, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice,...
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice, which works for the abolition of the death penalty, said that Trinidad and Tobago was not a safer place and the murder rate was climbing despite 11 state executions in 1999
- APRIL 18, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
An opinion poll published in April by the St
An opinion poll published in April by the St