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Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
The last person executed in Jamaica was Nathan Foster, who was convicted of murder and hanged in 1988. The Jamaican Parliament had placed a moratorium on the death penalty until 2009, when it was lifted. Since 2009, capital punishment is legal and executions in Jamaica could resume; however, there have been no executions since.
In Caribbean countries, the death penalty exists at least de jure, except in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which abolished it in 1969 and 1987, respectively. Grenada is abolitionist in practice; its last execution was in 1978.
Its last execution was of Anthony Briggs for murder on 28 July 1999. However, the country is still considered "retentionist' due to lack of "an established practice or policy against carrying out executions." [1] Trinidad and Tobago is the only country in the Americas that retains the mandatory death penalty for murder. [2]
The Caribbean Territories (Abolition of Death Penalty for Murder) Order 1991 (1991 No. 988) is an Order-in-Council issued by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty for murder in the British Dependent Territories in the Caribbean.
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. [1] The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. [1] As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death.
It was the first official firing squad execution in Guatemala since 1983. [2] [3] It was also the first execution to occur in Latin America, with the exception of Guyana and the Caribbean, in a span of over ten years. [4] The executions occurred outside of the Canada Penal Farm (Granja de Canadá), [1] in Escuintla, Guatemala. [5]