[2007] UKPC 7

Appeals against death sentences imposed on the appellants in 1986 for the murder of a former prime minister of Grenada and 10 other people were allowed. The legality of the sentences had never been the subject of a specific application to the court, there was no adequate mechanism in Grenada for providing the appellants with the judicial sentencing procedure to which they were entitled, and the question of their fate was so politically charged that it was not reasonable to expect any government of Grenada to take an objective view of the matter.

PC (Gren) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood)

07/02/2007