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
- 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
- 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
- JUNE 7, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On June 7, Joel Ramsingh, Stephen Eversley and Bhagwandeen...
On June 7, Joel Ramsingh, Stephen Eversley and Bhagwandeen Singh were put to death within 3 hours, starting at 6
- JUNE 5, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On June 5, Clive Thomas, Robin Gopaul and Russel Sankerali...
On June 5, Clive Thomas, Robin Gopaul and Russel Sankerali were also hanged for the above murder
- JUNE 4, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On June 4, Dole Chadee, 47, was hanged in the Royal...
On June 4, Dole Chadee, 47, was hanged in the Royal jail in Port of Spain at 6
- JUNE 4, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On June 4, Prime Minister Basedo Panday announced the...
On June 4, Prime Minister Basedo Panday announced the date for a local government election, the first time in many years that a local poll has been called during the legal term of an existing local government campaign
- MAY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council...
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council refused to grant petitioners, Nankissoon Boodram, also called Dole Chadee, and 8 others, special leave to appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago on May 16, 1999, upholding the
- APRIL 21, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On April 21, Cletus Timothy, Dexter Reid and Sheldon...
On April 21, Cletus Timothy, Dexter Reid and Sheldon Lewis, 3 men held on death row in Trinidad and Tobago for nearly 4 years, were released after the British Privy Council overturned their convictions
- JANUARY 29, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, Attorneys General of 12 countries, furious...
On January 29, Attorneys General of 12 countries, furious over the new British court decision curbing death sentences, signed a statement in Trinidad advising their governments to withdraw from the Inter-American Human Rights Convention and the UN Covenan
- JANUARY 28, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 28, the Privy Council, which declined to...
On January 28, the Privy Council, which declined to hear the case two years ago, heard an appeal filed by Indravani Pamela Ramjattan, aged 36
- JANUARY 26, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
On January 26, the Privy Council ruled on constitutional...
On January 26, the Privy Council ruled on constitutional motions brought by Darrin Roger Thomas and Haniff Hilaire, who were both under sentence of death in Trinidad and Tobago, stating "that to carry out the death sentences imposed on the men before the
- JANUARY 1, 1999Trinidad & 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, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The legal problem stems from a controversial 1994 judgment...
The legal problem stems from a controversial 1994 judgment that was made by the Privy Council in London, when it ruled that it is cruel and unjust punishment to keep prisoners on death row for more than 5 years after their conviction, and their sentences
- JANUARY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Parliament passed the region's first law against domestic...
Parliament passed the region's first law against domestic violence, in 1991