Murder and treason are capital crimes.

Murder and treason are capital crimes. The death penalty was last carried out in Dominica in August 1986.
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains the death penalty and for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal.
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 Dominica 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.
Dominica was one of the eleven parties to a 2001 agreement to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to replace the Privy Council as the region’s final court of appeal.
Caribbean countries view the CCJ as the means to throw off the last vestiges of colonialism, but human rights groups have warned that the Court may be a hanging court.
The Caribbean Court of Justice was inaugurated in Trinidad on April 16, 2005.
However in late 2004 - after doubt was cast on the possibility of obtaining the two-thirds majority in Parliament necessary to amend the Constitution, and thus enable the move – Dominica announced that it would continue to refer appeals to the Privy Council.