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.
And in an attempt to compel the State to speed up that process one of the 86 Death Row inmates, Narine Sooklal, yesterday filed a lawsuit claiming that his continued detention in Death Row was illegal and unconstitutional. Sooklal, 57, was convicted of killing Mobina Ali, his father-in-law's lover on May 24, 1996, and has been on Death Row since then.
"Since July 8, 2004, I have been daily expecting to have my sentence commuted to life imprisonment and to be removed from the Death Row. I remain on Death Row. Each day that passes constitutes mental anguish to me since I have exhausted all my appeals and do not know what to expect," Sooklal stated in an affidavit filed in the Port of Spain Civil Registry.
"Having had my expectations crushed that my sentence would be reviewed and that I might benefit from a fixed term, I believe that at least I am entitled to have my death sentence commuted to life imprisonment," he added. Sooklal was charged with Francis Mansingh for Ali's murder in 1992 and both men were also charged with killing Sooklal's father-in-law, Harry Narinesingh, days later to allegedly prevent Narinesingh from transferring his property to Ali.
They were found guilty and sentenced to hang for Ali's murder on May 24, 1996. Eleven years later, on January 7, 2004, their trial for the Narinesingh murder came up in the High Court but the State offered no evidence against them and they were acquitted. No date has been set for the hearing of the constitutional motion which names both the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Prisons as the respondents.