Trinidad PM looking to resume hanging
Key Points(5)
- Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Kieth Rowley, has asked former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, to resurrect the hangman.
- Maharaj oversaw the 1999 executions of drug baron Dole Chadee and eight of his gang members hanged.
- Rowley has clarified his own position on the death penalty, saying he favoured it, after being asked by the media for a statement on crime and the murder of policewoman Nyasha Joseph.
- Joseph, 22, was reported missing last Friday and her body discovered on Wednesday at the swampy mouth of the Caroni River, where it exits into the Gulf of Paria, by fishermen trawling for shrimp.
- Rowley said he would not apologise for his position on the death penalty for murder.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Kieth Rowley, has asked former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, to resurrect the hangman.
Maharaj oversaw the 1999 executions of drug baron Dole Chadee and eight of his gang members hanged.
Rowley has clarified his own position on the death penalty, saying he favoured it, after being asked by the media for a statement on crime and the murder of policewoman Nyasha Joseph.
Joseph, 22, was reported missing last Friday and her body discovered on Wednesday at the swampy mouth of the Caroni River, where it exits into the Gulf of Paria, by fishermen trawling for shrimp.
Rowley said he would not apologise for his position on the death penalty for murder.
