The Trinidad and Tobago government said it was still...

The Trinidad and Tobago government said it was still awaiting the ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) that has ordered it to pay 50,000 US dollars to support and educate the son of an executed multiple murderer.
Attorney-General Glenda Morean told reporters that she had not yet seen the ruling the IACHR made on June 21 in Costa Rica. She said she would have to read it before commenting. Under the ruling, the IACHR also called on the government to pay an additional sum of 10,000 US dollars to the mother of executed murderer Joey Ramiah, as damages for hanging her son while he had a petition pending before the court.
Ramiah was one of nine people, including Dole Chadee, who the Basdeo Panday administration executed on a long weekend in 1999 after they were found guilty of murdering four members of a family. But he had his petition before the IACHR on two other murder convictions.
In its ruling, the IACHR ordered that the government pay 50,000 US dollars to Ramiah's common-law wife, Carol Ramcharan to support and educate their child, Joanus.
The court also ordered the state to pay an estimated 13,000 US dollars to each of the legal representatives of the 32 petitioners as reimbursement for the expenses they incurred in bringing the cases before the Court.
Trinidad and Tobago's laws governing capital punishment and prison conditions were again criticized by the human rights court which recommended a variety of legislative changes to improve conditions.
The IACHR said that the state had committed several violations of the American Convention on Human Rights including the right to life, the right to a fair trial, the right to having a trial without delay and the right to access to the courts.
The IACHR said as a result of these violations the state should have to "abstain from executing" the 32 killers who have all lost their appeals.