Amnesty urges no vote

Human Rights group Amnesty International has made an eleventh hour appeal to members of the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament as they prepare to debate a bill to resume hangings today.



Amnesty International has urged parliamentarians to vote against the bill which proposes that courts across the country should be able to circumvent judicial rulings that resulted in a halt to executions in 1999.



Currently, under a ruling by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, any execution carried out five years after the original sentence constitutes torture, which is illegal under the country's Constitution.



More than 40 people are currently on death row in Trinidad and Tobago.