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''R v Hughes'' is a 2002
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for the Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories, some Commonwealth countries and a few institutions in the United Kingdom. Established on 14 Aug ...
(JCPC) case in which it was held that it was unconstitutional in Saint Lucia for
capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
to be the mandatory sentence for murder. The JCPC held that because the Constitution of Saint Lucia prohibits "inhuman or degrading punishment", following a murder conviction, a trial judge must have discretion to impose a lesser penalty than death by hanging; capital punishment may be applied only in those cases that contain aggravating factors as compared to other murder cases. The case was decided with '' Reyes v R'' and ''
Fox v R ''Fox v R'' is a 2002 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) case in which it was held that it was unconstitutional in Saint Kitts and Nevis for capital punishment to be the mandatory sentence for murder. The JCPC held that because the Con ...
'', cases on the same issue on appeal from
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and
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Bowe v R ''Bowe v R'' is a 2006 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) case in which it was held that it was unconstitutional in the Bahamas for capital punishment to be the mandatory sentence for murder. The JCPC held that because the Constitut ...
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Boyce v R ''Boyce v R'' is a 2004 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) case which upheld the law that sets out a mandatory sentence of death for murder in Barbados. The JCPC held in some cases, the law that makes capital punishment mandatory f ...
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Matthew v S ''Matthew v S'' is a 2004 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) case which upheld the law that sets out a mandatory sentence of death for murder in Trinidad and Tobago. The JCPC held in some cases, the law that makes capital punishment m ...
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''R v Hughes''
bailii.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Hughes 2002 in United Kingdom case law 2002 in Saint Lucia Death penalty case law Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases on appeal from Saint Lucia Prisoners sentenced to death by Saint Lucia Murder in Saint Lucia