Joseph Solomon (died 17 October 1995) was a convicted

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

er and was the most recent person to have been executed by

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

. Solomon was convicted of murder and rape in 1979 and sentenced to death, which was mandatory for murder under Saint Lucian law. However, his sentence was commuted to

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by the government. In 1993, after serving fourteen years in prison, Solomon was pardoned and released from prison. The next year, Solomon was arrested for the murder of a woman who had employed him to be her gardener At his 1994 trial, he was again sentenced to death by hanging. Solomon was executed on 17 October 1995, with another prisoner acting as the hangman. It was the first execution in Saint Lucia since 1986. Since Solomon's execution, no prisoner has been put to death by Saint Lucia.

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"Death Penalty News"
December 1995, accessed 24 November 2008 *Amnesty International, ''Amnesty International Report 1996: St Lucia'', 1 January 1996, unhcr.org, accessed 24 November 2008 *Hans Göran Franck, Klas Nyman, and William Schabas (2003). ''The Barbaric Punishment: Abolishing the Death Penalty'' (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ) p. 118 Specific 1995 deaths 20th-century executions by Saint Lucia People executed for murder Executed Saint Lucian people People executed by Saint Lucia by hanging People convicted of murder by Saint Lucia Saint Lucian rapists Saint Lucian people convicted of murder Recipients of Saint Lucian royal pardons Year of birth missing {{SaintLucia-bio-stub

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