(Trinidad and Tobago) Where hanging was the only means for the carrying out of the death penalty, it was a lawful method of execution, and not necessarily cruel and unusual, despite evidence of the suffering caused by the process. A rule in the constitution preventing such punishment was disapplied because the procedure was already in existence when the constitution was passed, and the constitutoin preserved existing punishments.
Times 01-Jun-1999, [1999] UKPC 30, [1999] UKPC 29
Bailii, Bailii, PC, PC, PC, PC, PC, PC
England and Wales
Criminal Sentencing, Human Rights
Updated: 05 January 2022; Ref: scu.174610
