Death Penalty in UK Law
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Matthew v Trinidad and Tobago
... ... The issue in these appeals is the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago. The relevant provisions of the ... ...
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Patrick Reyes v The Queen
... ... He was tried on two counts of murder, convicted and sentenced to death on each count as required by the law of Belize on conviction of murder by ... argument challenges the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty, which is said to infringe both the protection against subjection to ... ...
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Boyce et Al v R
... ... The issue in these appeals is the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in Barbados. The relevant provisions of the constitution are ... ...
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Watson v The Queen
... ... person who is convicted of non-capital murder shall be sentenced to death "if before that conviction he has … (b) been convicted of another murder ... significance, because the grounds on which the mandatory death penalty is said to be unconstitutional in this case extend to the ... ...
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The Queen v Peter Hughes
... ... : "Whoever commits murder is liable indictably to suffer death." ... Section 1284 provides: "Unless otherwise expressly ... The Court of Appeal also held that the mandatory death penalty was inconsistent with the identically worded section 5 of the Constitution ... ...
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Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
... ... 2 These six appellants have been sentenced to death in Jamaica after conviction of murder. The appeals have been heard ... prepared to do so when a man's life is at stake, where the death penalty is involved, if they are satisfied that the earlier cases adopted a wrong ... ...
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
... ... On 15th January 1979 they were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Since that date they have been in prison in that part of Saint ... 719 ... 3 The death penalty ... 4 The death penalty in the United Kingdom has always been carried ... ...
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R (on the application of Anderson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... It is enough that he intended to cause serious physical injury if death resulted. Secondly, the crime of murder so defined embraces acts of widely ... (1989, HL Paper 78-I, p 13 para 27); Report of the Committee on the Penalty for Homicide chaired by Lord Lane (Prison Reform Trust, 1993, p 21 ) ... ...
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
... ... had happened it would be unlawful to carry out the sentences of death passed on them for murder. On 27th January 1999 their Lordships announced ... was primarily designed to preserve the legitimacy of the death penalty but which in other respects their Lordships are satisfied is not material ... ...
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Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor; Koh Chai Cheng v Public Prosecutor
Fundamental rules of natural justice in the field of criminal law. Controlled drug. Offence of trafficking. Mandatory sentence of death... ... the amount of heroin involved exceeded 15g in each case sentence of death was imposed on both appellants. Sentence of death is mandatory under s 29 ... provision in s 29 and the second schedule for a mandatory death penalty for trafficking in controlled drugs in excess of the higher minimum ... ...
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