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GUYANA: COURT OF APPEAL REFUSES TO DECLARE THE DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL

December 28, 2022:

The Court of Appeal in Guyana on 22 December 2022 overturned three death sentences and replaced them with life sentences but declined to strike down the death penalty as unconstitutional.
In a statement regarding its “landmark challenge to capital punishment”, the London-based Death Penalty Project said the Court of Appeal was considering the cases of three former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guards members, Devon Gordon, Deon Greenidge and Sherwyn Harte, who in 2013 were found guilty of the robbery and murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass.
The trial judge imposed death sentences on all three defendants. The three men appealed to the Court of Appeal.
The Death Penalty Project, which has, for over three decades, been providing free legal representation to those facing the death penalty, said it offered assistance to the appellants and supported their legal team in Guyana.
“In the course of the appeal, we provided evidence to the Court from leading academics. The evidence showed that capital punishment does not act as a greater deterrent to crime than lesser forms of punishment and that there is a growing consensus that capital punishment is inherently inconsistent with respect for the rule of law,” the project stated.
In its statement, the organisation said the appellants’ legal team that included attorney C A Nigel Hughes of Guyana and Trinidad-based Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes SC, presented the legal arguments in the Court of Appeal, argued that the death penalty was unconstitutional; being arbitrary, irrational, disproportionate, and contrary to the constitutional principle of the rule of law.
“The Court of Appeal has not accepted these arguments and has declined to declare capital punishment unconstitutional in Guyana. The Court of Appeal overturned the appellants’ sentences of death, on the basis that it was unconstitutional for the trial court to hand down the death penalty automatically without affording the appellants individualised sentencing hearings. The failure to do so was a breach of their constitutional rights.
The Death Penalty Project considers that the Court of Appeal should have declared all death sentences unconstitutional.
The legal team will now explore a further appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice.

(Source: The Death Penalty Project, 22/12/2022)

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