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
- 164
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 164 news items on Trinidad & Tobago, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 25, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on English-speaking Caribbean...
Amnesty International called on English-speaking Caribbean nations to abandon the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Several governments in the Caribbean are expected to...
Several governments in the Caribbean are expected to speed up plans to establish a regional court after a ruling by Britain's Privy Council that the mandatory death penalty is in violation of the constitutions of several countries
- 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 13, 2002Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- 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)
- 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
- APRIL 17, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney-General Ramesh Maharaj...
Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney-General Ramesh Maharaj denied Amnesty International's charges
- APRIL 14, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that Trinidad and Tobago...
Amnesty International said that Trinidad and Tobago was quietly removing itself from international scrutiny with its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 27, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal...
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- JANUARY 18, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago, Ramesh...
The Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago, Ramesh Maharaj, spoke out in favour of a Caribbean Court of Appeal to replace the Privy Council
- JANUARY 1, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On July 28, 1999, Anthony Briggs, 31, was put to death...
On July 28, 1999, Anthony Briggs, 31, was put to death at the Royal jail in Port of Spain
- JANUARY 1, 2000Trinidad & 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
- JANUARY 1, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On May 26, 1998, the Trinidad and Tobago Government...
On May 26, 1998, the Trinidad and Tobago Government withdrew from the first Optional Protocol to the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with effect from 26 August 1998
- JANUARY 1, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago currently has approximately 81...
Trinidad and Tobago currently has approximately 81 men and women under sentence of death, which is the mandatory punishment for murder
- NOVEMBER 10, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On November 10, speaking at the Third Committee of...
On November 10, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly, the representative of Trinidad and Tobago referred to the portion of the statement by Finland on behalf of the European Union regarding the death penalty
- OCTOBER 8, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On October 8, Chief Justice Michael de la Bastide of...
On October 8, Chief Justice Michael de la Bastide of the Court of Appeal overturned the death sentence on Indravani Ramjattan and reduced the charge against her from murder to manslaughter for the February 12, 1991, killing of her husband, Alexander Jorda
- OCTOBER 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
In October, it was reported that the murder rate in...
In October, it was reported that the murder rate in this southern Caribbean nation of 1
- AUGUST 27, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On August 27, a delegation led by the Italian Vice...
On August 27, a delegation led by the Italian Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies' Committee on Foreign Affairs Enzo Trantino, and composed of Ambassador Claudio Moreno, and Hands Off Cain's representatives Sergio D'Elia, Secretary, and Elisabetta Z
- JULY 28, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On July 28, Anthony Briggs, 31, was put to death at...
On July 28, Anthony Briggs, 31, was put to death at the Royal jail in Port of Spain
- JULY 22, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Trinidad and Tobago signed the letter, dated 22 July...
Trinidad and Tobago signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death p