Posted on 07/14/2023 2:12:23 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1994, Glenn (or Glen) Ashby was hastily hanged at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ashby’s strange and internationally condemned (pdf) case was a milestone en route to the creation of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Constrained by a 1993 legal decision from the British Privy Council — still the court of final appeal for Commonwealth Caribbean countries — to the effect that death-sentenced prisoners who awaited execution for more than five years were inherently being subjected to “cruel and inhuman treatment,” Trinidad raced to hang Ashby before his five years ran out. Since Ashby had been sentenced on July 20, 1989 (he stabbed a guy to death during a burglary) that newly-discovered deadline was practically on top of them.
Ashby’s date with the hemp was scheduled for July 14, but his lawyers appealed to the Privy Council. However, in spite of an undertaking by Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Keith Sobion that the execution would wait on the Council’s ruling, Ashby was hurried to the gallows around 6:30 a.m. Minutes later, word arrived that the Privy Council had actually granted the stay.
Needless to say, hanging a fellow while his appeal was still pending got some legal briefs in a twist....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Murderous thieves need to be hanged.
“Since Ashby had been sentenced on July 20, 1989 (he stabbed a guy to death during a burglary) that newly-discovered deadline was practically on top of them.”
Since Ashby had been sentenced on July 20, 1989 (he stabbed a guy to death during a burglary)
...’death-sentenced prisoners who awaited execution for more than five years were inherently being subjected to “cruel and inhuman treatment”’
Heck, it’s cruel if the condemned isn’t walked from the court room to the gallows immediately.
In Japan they don’t give a condemned an execution date. The guard just shows up and says “it’s time...”
“The guard just shows up and says “it’s time...”
Maybe not for much longer. Two prisoners are suing over the situation.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/death-row-prisoners-in-japan-sue-over-same-day-notice-of-executions
If he was,in fact,guilty of wantonly killing another I’m totally cool with this.
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