BARBADOS HAS BEEN left in limbo concerning the death penalty.
And Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Charles Leacock has pointed to the conflict between international rulings and the local law as the crux of the matter.
Leacock referred to the Boyce and Joseph case in 2003 in which the mandatory death penalty was deemed cruel and unusual and inconsistent with section 15 of the constitution which spoke to the protection from inhuman treatment.
However, due to section 26 of the constitution, which spoke to the saving of existing laws, the death penalty was retained. (AD)
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