The Death Penalty Project of London recent­ly pub­lished A Penalty Without Legitimacy: The Mandatory Death Penalty In Trinidad And Tobago (2009), a col­lec­tion of papers pre­sent­ed at a con­fer­ence in Trinidad & Tobago in March 2009. The papers include a study of opin­ions of judges, pros­e­cu­tors, and coun­sel on the use of the manda­to­ry death penal­ty in Trinidad and Tobago and ways to bring its prac­tice in line with oth­er coun­tries that have retained the death penal­ty. The report also includes con­tri­bu­tions by Jeffrey Fagan on the sub­ject of deter­rence and Douglas Mendes on inter­na­tion­al and com­par­a­tive per­spec­tives on the death penal­ty. The Death Penalty Project hopes that the find­ings pre­sent­ed in the report will stim­u­late dis­cus­sion about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of abol­ish­ing the manda­to­ry nature of the death penal­ty. For more infor­ma­tion about this report click here.

(R. Hood & F. Seemungal, A Penalty Without Legitimacy: The Mandatory Death Penalty In Trinidad And Tobago (2009), the Death Penalty Project). See International and Studies.

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