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
- 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
- JANUARY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
After several years of mounting violence, Prime Minister...
After several years of mounting violence, Prime Minister Basedo Panday used the crime issue to win election on a get-tough platform in 1995
- JANUARY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
However, at a meeting of Caribbean Attorneys General...
However, at a meeting of Caribbean Attorneys General early in 1998, they affirmed their commitment to the death penalty and that "their sovereignty must not be undermined and their laws subverted as a result of inaction of the Human Rights Committee