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NANKISSOON BOODRAM (AKA DOLE CHADEE) & ORS v CIPRIANI BAPTISTE (COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS) & ORS (1999)

PUBLISHED May 26, 1999
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In a petition by condemned prisoners who alleged that hanging constituted cruel and unusual punishment, it was held that hanging was the only lawful method of execution of a sentence of death in Trinidad and Tobago.

PC (Trin) (Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Clyde, Lord Millett)

26/05/1999

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