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    March 3, 2016

    Sentenced to hang


    By Tameisha Sobers
    nationnews.com

    WITH A LOUD SIGH of apparent disbelief, Carlton Junior Hall held his head in his hands and looked to the court ceiling after he was found guilty of murder by a 12-member jury in the No. 5 Supreme Court yesterday.

    And the still of the courtroom only became more pronounced when he was sentenced to hang by Justice Jacqueline Cornelius.

    The sentence came even as the public debate continued on whether Barbados should retain the death penalty.

    The pronouncement drew tears from some members of Hall’s family who were in court, with one female trying to suppress her cries as she held her hand over her mouth.

    It was the end of a two-week trial. Hall, 25, a shop assistant, of 2nd Avenue, Chapman Lane, St Michael, was charged with murdering Adrian Wilkinson on August 14, 2011, near Chefette restaurant in Speightstown, St Peter. (TKS)

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews...sentenced-hang
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    July 1, 2016

    Bynoe sentenced to hang


    By Tameisha Sobers

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    CAMPUS TRENDZ murder accused Jamar Bynoe was sentenced to hang this evening after he was found guilty of all six counts of murder against him.

    The verdict was decided by a 12-member jury member made up of seven women and five men who deliberated for just under three hours.

    Bynoe, 24, is charged with the September 3, 2010 murder of Shanna Griffith, Kelly Ann Welch, Pearl Cornelius, Kellshaw Ollivierre, Nikita Belgrave and Tiffany Harding who all lost their lives in the blaze at the Bridgetown boutique.

    The trial which started on April 12 was heard in the No.2 Supreme Court before Justice Michelle Weekes. Principal Crown Counsel Allison Seale prosecuted while Bynoe represented himself.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews...sentenced-hang
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    AG: Convicted killers to be resentenced

    By Emmanuel Joseph
    Barbados Today

    All 11 convicted killers on death row at Her Majesty’s Prison at Dodds, St Philip will have to be resentenced the Attorney General Dale Marshall has told Parliament.

    But Marshall also disclosed “the frightening prospect” that scores of other Barbadians, now facing trial for murder may never be sentenced to die once convicted.

    The revelation came during debate on the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2018, which the House of Assembly passed to abolish the mandatory death sentence, as ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

    The CCJ had ruled that the mandatory death sentenced currently on the statute books of this country was unconstitutional.

    “Now the 11 who are currently in Dodds, by ruling that their sentence is unconstitutional, they will all have to be resentenced,” said Marshall.

    Each death row prisoner will now have to return to court where a judge “will take into account such matters as he needs to take into account and then make a decision,” he told fellow lawmakers.

    But the resentencing under the amended law would not prevent a judge from re-imposing a death sentence as capital murder is still on the law books.

    The Inter-American Court on Human Rights had already ordered resentencing in respect of two convicts, Marshall added.

    But the Attorney General then revealed the scores of individuals now facing murder charges who may never be sentenced to death if convicted.

    “Mr Speaker, as at today, there are 62 Barbadian men and women who are awaiting trial for murder. There are six awaiting trial for manslaughter. There are 11 people on death row. So 62 and six is 68 and 11 is 79. So sir, as we speak today we have 79 people whom this statute could possibly affect,” Marshall said.

    “But it must be a frightening prospect for us sir, that we have 62 people who are charged with murder but on the law as it stands, we would likely not be able to inflict capital punishment on them,” he said.

    The Attorney General explained that if Government did not come to Parliament to change the law on the mandatory death sentence in light of the CCJ ruling, judges would be facing a serious dilemma.

    “If an individual is convicted of murder tomorrow, the judge will immediately go to the Offences Against the Person Act, which says that he must sentence that individual to death. But the problem is that he is also bound by the decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice which says that you cannot sentence the individual to death,” he pointed out.

    Marshall also said that even though he told the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Donna Babb to fast-track all the murder cases and get them before the courts, he at the same time had to tell her to put them on hold.

    “Because, if a person is convicted tomorrow, that judge can’t go left and he can’t go right. He can’t sentence them to death, but he can’t not sentence them to death. Now how can a responsible Government put a judge in that position?” he asked, adding that the amendment had to be made to the law.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/09/19/...e-resentenced/

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    Carlton Junior Hall loses his appeal

    Convicted murderer Carlton Junior Hall has had his appeal against his conviction dismissed.

    The Appeal Court comprised of Justices Kay Goodridge, Margaret Reifer and William Chandler, upheld the decision of a 12-member jury, who had found a then 25-year old Hall guilty of murdering Adrian Wilkinson on March 2, 2016.

    Wilkson died on the spot at Speightstown, St Peter on Sunday, August 14, 2011, after being gunned down.

    Hall was sentenced to hang by trial judge Justice Jacqueline Cornelius.

    But Hall, whose last address was given as 2nd Avenue, Chapman Lane, St Michael, through his attorney Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim had appealed the conviction.

    The appeal was in relation to identification, as per section 102 of Evidence Act in what amounts to special circumstances, due to the fact that the Crown’s case relied on identification evidence.

    In a 31-page judgment handed down and delivered by Reifer yesterday, the court ruled that the evidence produced by the Crown was of such a standard as to constitute special circumstances, within the meaning of Section 102 2A of the Evidence Act and was properly placed before the jury who was adequately warned.

    The court also ruled that the trial judge had correctly overruled a no-case submission.

    However, because of a ruling made by Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that the imposition of a mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional, the court ordered that Hall be returned to the trial judge to be resentenced at the earliest opportunity.

    Acting Deputy Director of Prosecution Anthony Blackman and Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas appeared on behalf of the Crown.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/01/24/...es-his-appeal/
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    April 18, 2020

    Former death row inmate Denzil Roberts collapses, dies

    A former murder convict who was part of the infamous prison break in 1991 with the notorious Winston Hall (deceased) is dead.

    Fifty-six-year-old Denzil Orlando Roberts of Cave Road, Tichbourne, St Michael reportedly collapsed while at Sky Mall, Haggatt Hall this morning.

    Police Public Relations Officer Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss confirmed it was the same Roberts and said he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at around 11.05 a.m.

    Roberts who had avoided execution in the 1990s, walked out of Dodds Prison a free man back in June 2017 after more than three decades in jail.

    He came to public notoriety in 1991 when he broke out of death row at Glendairy Prison along with convicted murderers Hall, David Oliver and Peter Bradshaw.

    Roberts’ death sentence was reduced to life and then remitted by the local Privy Council.

    Local criminologist and author Kim Ramsay profiled Roberts in her 2018 book Barbados’ Most Wanted.

    That publication exposes the atmosphere and nature of the Barbadian criminal of yesteryear and outlines the profiles of 11 of this country’s’ most notorious criminals and the lives they lived.

    Ramsay said on local radio today she had met Roberts in prison and he was also writing his own book about his life and had indicated he wanted to turn around his life and become an agent for change.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/04/18/...ollapses-dies/
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