Trinidad and Tobago government to present legislation allowing the death penalty
Published:Saturday | January 15, 2011 | 8:49 AM
The Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday announced plans to introduce new legislation to facilitate the implementation of the death penalty in the country.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar in a statement to Parliament said that her seven-month-old People’s Partnership government had decided to introduce an amendment to the Constitution to facilitate the new initiative by her administration.
There are 42 persons on death row in Trinidad and Tobago.