[2002] UKPC 11

Belize's mandatory death sentence for murder was unconstitutional because it excluded from sentencing any judicial consideration of the humanity of condemning the defendant to death. It infringed the right to be protected from inhuman or degrading punishment.

PC (Bze) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hutton, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough, Lord Millett, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry)

11/03/2002