Barbados: Imminent Execution

Index AI : AMR 15/001/2005
Date de publication : 11 février 2005
Catégorie(s) : Amériques, Barbade

Frederick Atkins is scheduled to be executed by hanging early on the morning of 14 February, even though his appeal has not yet been heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. If the sentence is carried out, this would be the first execution in Barbados since 1984.