Boodram v Baptiste

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Type: Case

Citation: [1999] 1 WLR 1709, PC; 3 LRC 607

Summary: Statute authorising hanging as only method of executing persons sentenced to death in Trinidad and Tobago — Statutory provisions not invalidated by constitutional prohibition on imposition of cruel and unusual punishment and so execution of sentences of death by hanging lawful

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Trinidad and Tobago

Date 1999

Tags

Capital, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Savings Clause

Index Data

Start date: 01-Jan-1999

End date: 31-Dec-1999

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File Location: N31/T14

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