Bradshaw v Attorney General of Barbados

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Type: Case

Citation: [1995] 1 WLR 936, PC

Summary: Delay between death sentence and execution — Court to have regard to total period since sentence and to consider whether entirety due to applicant’s fault so not entitled to rely thereon — Time taken by international bodies to process petitions not to be excluded from overall computation of time between sentence and intended execution — To execute applicants over 5 years after sentence passed would constitute inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment — Sentences of life imprisonment substituted

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Barbados

Date 1995