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23 Years Being Convicted of Murder, Privy Council Orders Immediate Release of Prisoner Serving Life Imprisonment
In a judgment delivered on 6th July 2011, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council allowed the appeal of Mr. Rajendra Krishna, a prisoner serving a life sentence in Trinidad & Tobago, and ordered his immediate release.
Privy Council Rule that Mandatory Death Sentence for ‘Felony’ Murder is ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’ in Trinidad and Tobago and Quashes Death Sentence
In a judgment delivered on 15 June 2011, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled that the mandatory death sentence for felony murder is unconstitutional as it amounts to cruel and unusual treatment.
Press Release: Singapore Court Dismisses Appeal: British Author Begins Prison Sentence for Writing Death Penalty Book
On 27 May 2011, the Court of Appeal of Singapore upheld the High Court’s decision to convict Mr. Alan Shadrake of contempt of court for the allegations he made in his book about the application of the death penalty in Singapore, “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore in the Dock”.
Public Opinion on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad
A survey of the opinions of a representative sample of 1,000 residents of Trinidad on the very topical subject of the death penalty, and in particular the support for and use of the mandatory death penalty for murder, has just been completed.
Press Release: ‘British Author Convicted of Contempt of Court in Singapore for Death Penalty Book’
In a judgment delivered today in Singapore, Mr Shadrake was found guilty of scandalising the judiciary in eleven of fourteen passages from his book “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore in the Dock”, which the Attorney General had listed as contemptuous.
Press Release: ‘Hundreds Saved from the Death Penalty in Kenya – Court Rules Mandatory Death Penalty for Murder to be Unconstitutional
In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal of Kenya today declared unconstitutional the application of a mandatory death sentence on all prisoners convicted of murder.
Press Release: ‘British National Sentenced to Death in the Democratic Republic of Congo Has Sentenced Quashed by Military High Court’
On 22nd April 2010, the Military High Court in Kinshasha (DRC) quashed the death sentences imposed on Joshua French, a British national, and his co-accused, Tjostolv Moland, and ordered a retrial to take place “as if nothing had happened”.
