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Papers prepared for a Conference held in Port of Spain on 7 March 2009 We commissioned an opinion survey among key stakeholders on the problems associated with the administration of the death penalty in Trinidad & Tobago. The research was conducted by the eminent experts Professor Emeritus Roger Hood CBE QC and Dr Florence Seemungal, following on from their 2006…

The purpose of this manual is to provide judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers with a practical guide to the sentencing phase in capital cases as it has developed around the world and in particular in jurisdictions of the Commonwealth. The Sentencing Guide is published by The Death Penalty Project and the work was funded by the European Union and the Foreign…

In 2003, the Death Penalty Project obtained funding from the European Commission and the Global Opportunities Fund of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and commissioned Professor Roger Hood, Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls’ College Oxford, and Dr Florence Seemungal, a Trinidadian researcher who was a visiting Scholar at the Centre for Criminology in…