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.
Antigua and Barbuda was one of the signatories of the agreement to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice in 2001. The CCJ would replace the Privy Council as the final court of appeal when it becomes operative. However, the country will have to hold a special referendum to be able to change over to the CCJ.