Capital punishment in Jamaica
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Jamaica. Currently, the only crime punishable by death is aggravated murder. The method of execution is hanging. Jamaica was originally a British colony. 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 1999, a series of hangings - by some accounts, amounting to 50 - were scheduled by the Jamaican government, following the recent hangings (the first in 20 years) in Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, after international protests, the executions were not carried out.[1]
It was estimated in 2012 that there were seven or eight inmates in Jamaica were on death row.[2] However, by 2018 this had been reduced to zero, with no executions having taken place.[3]
References
- ^ "Jamaica to hang dozens of convicts". Independent.co.uk. 21 June 1999.
- ^ "The Death Penalty in Jamaica". www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org. Archived from the original on 31 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Sentences and Executions 2018" (PDF). www.amnesty.org. Amnesty International. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091121045649/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Jamaica-Death-Penalty-To-Stay-After-Parliament-Vote-Despite-Human-Rights-Protests/Article/200811415162159
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Capital punishment
- Hanging
- Shooting
- Lethal injection
- Nitrogen hypoxia
- Electrocution
- Gas chamber
- Beheading
- Stoning
Post-classical
methods
- Damnatio ad bestias
- Blood eagle
- Blowing from a gun
- Brazen bull
- Boiling
- Breaking wheel
- Burial
- Burning
- Crucifixion
- Crushing
- Disembowelment
- Dismemberment
- Drowning
- Elephant
- Falling
- Flaying
- Garrote
- Gibbeting
- Guillotine
- Hanged, drawn and quartered
- Immurement
- Impalement
- Ishikozume
- Mazzatello
- Sawing
- Scaphism
- Slow slicing
- Stoning
- Suffocation in ash
- Upright jerker
- Waist chop
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- Last meal
- Penology
- List of methods
- Religion and capital punishment
- Wrongful execution
- Botched execution
- Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations
- Capital punishment for drug trafficking
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
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