"There has been very little public intellectual discourse in the
Commonwealth Caribbean on one of the most vexing issues of the
criminal justice system: the retention of the death penalty as a
punishment. In The Death Penalty and Human Rights, Sir Fred
Phillips examines the changing nature of Caribbean jurisprudence
away from the acceptance of the death penalty as a mandatory
punishment in contrast to the prevailing dictates of political will
which advocate for its retention. On the international landscape,
it is generally accepted that the death penalty runs contrary to
the right to humane treatment enshrined in several treaties and
Conventions to which the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean
are signatories. Using the celebrated Jamaican case of Pratt and
Morgan, the book examines and discusses the cases of the past two
decades which have led to the changing jurisprudence on this life
and death issue. Unapologetic in the arguments for abolition of the
death penalty, The Death Penalty and Human Rights is a concise
examination of a sensitive yet important aspect of Caribbean
jurisprudence. "
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