Murder and treason are capital crimes.

Murder and treason are capital crimes.
St Vincent is a British Independent Territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal.
St Vincent is debating adherence to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that would replace the Privy Council as the final court of appeal in the region. This would require constitutional reforms. The CCJ is not yet an operative institution, and the Privy Council continues to be the highest court.
Since the 1993 Pratt and Morgan ruling by the Privy Council, the death penalty can not be carried out if the prisoner concerned has been under sentence of death for more than five years, in which case the sentence is automatically commuted to life imprisonment.
On March 11, 2002, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council confirmed the April 2001 decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (ECCA) ruling that the mandatory death penalty was unconstitutional, and unanimously struck down the mandatory death penalty for murder in St Vincent and six other countries. The JCPC made one modification to the ECCA's ruling, saying that sentences should be set by a judge and not a jury. All death row cases in these countries had to be reviewed.
The executions of three prisoners on February 13, 1995 were the first on the island since 1991. The death warrant was issued four days prior to execution. Following the executions, local human rights organizations charged that the process was conducted in virtual secrecy and called on the Government to allow death row prisoners the right to a hearing before the Mercy Committee prior to the issuing of a death warrant.