The Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) calls on all citizens to spend some time on Wednesday 10th Oct to pray for peace in TT/the world; for an end to crime and violence; for the victims of crime; for the adoption of anti-crime strategies that are more in keeping with the sanctity of all life and the dignity of the human person; and for the abolition of the Death Penalty.
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World Day Against the Death Penalty today
Abolitionists call on Govt to start talks with civil society
Published: TT Guardian
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition Against the Death Penalty has issued a call for serious consideration of mandatory death sentences as a first step towards abolition of the death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago.
Further, the coalition said there is a need to move the death penalty debate beyond its use as a crime prevention measure and instead to explore effective preventative programming and improve the public security of T&T while promoting a restorative approach to the administration of justice.
The statement comes on the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty today. The World Day was inaugurated by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 130 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions from around the world to bring abolitionists together to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty.
As regards T&T, the coalition also believes that it is time to move the public security debate beyond the death penalty and calls on the Government and the legislature to begin engaging in meaningful dialogue with civil society—including non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, faith-based organisations, academia, activists and the legal profession—to explore new and effective solutions to improving public security and valuing a restorative approach to the administration of justice.
The local coalition says T&T is no exception and notes there has been recent legislative attempts to facilitate a return to hanging. After an undertaking by the Barbadian government to abolish their mandatory death sentencing, it points out that T&T is now the only country in the region which imposes a mandatory death sentence for murder.
This is prohibited under international human rights law and removes the judges’ ability to consider all factors in a case, including mitigating circumstances or the individual circumstances of the crime itself. This year’s theme of the world day focuses on the progress which has been made against the death penalty internationally in its first decade.
The coalition points out that the end of 2003, 80 countries had abolished the death penalty. Today, that figure stands at 97. Other countries which have joined this list are abolitionist for ordinary crimes, or have established a formal moratorium on executions.
