Papers prepared for a Conference held in Port of Spain on 7 March 2009

March 2009

The Death Penalty Project commissioned a survey of opinion among key stakeholders on the problems associated with the administration of the death penalty in Trinidad & Tobago. The research was conducted by the eminent experts Professor Emeritus Roger Hood CBE QC and Dr Florence Seemungal, following on from their 2006 publication A Rare and Arbitrary Fate, on the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago. A conference was held in Port of Spain in March 2009, and the papers delivered are included in this Report.  They include: -

• Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal: Experiences and Perceptions of The Mandatory Death Sentence For Murder In Trinidad And Tobago: Judges, Prosecutors And Counsel 
• Douglas Mendes: The Mandatory Death Penalty — An International and Comparative Perspective
• Jeffrey Fagan: Deterrence and the Death Penalty