Murder is a capital crime.

Murder is a capital crime. The Governor General has the power to commute capital sentences.
Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) 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 such cases the sentence is automatically commuted to life imprisonment.
On March 11, 2002, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) confirmed the April 2001 decision by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (ECCA) that the mandatory death penalty was unconstitutional, and unanimously struck down the mandatory death penalty for murder in Antigua and Barbuda 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.
Antigua has not had a hanging since February 2, 1991.
In 2001, Antigua and Barbuda was one of eleven states that signed an agreement to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to replace the Privy Council as the region’s final court of appeal. However, the country will have to hold a special referendum to be able to change over to the CCJ.
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.
At the end 2015, seven people remained on death row, according to Amnesty International. However, it is unlikely that these convicts will be executed after the decision of the national parliament in September 2013 to abolish the mandatory death penalty.

The United Nations
On 15 March 2012, the authorities rejected calls made by the UN Human Rights Council in October 2011 during a review of human rights issues in Antigua and Barbuda to abolish the death penalty. According to the authorities, changing existing legislation on matters related to the death penalty was not an acceptable proposition in light of public opinion.
On December 18, 2014 as in 2008 and in 2010, Antigua and Barbuda voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly. On December 20, 2012, Antigua and Barbuda was absent during the vote.