Trinidad and Tobago’s Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Suggested List of Issues Relating to: The Death Penalty
Date: June 20, 2026
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Disability Rights
Mechanism: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Report Type: List of Issues
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Disability Rights
Mechanism: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Report Type: List of Issues
Trinidad and Tobago retains a mandatory death penalty for murder and treason, and while
authorities have not carried out an execution since 1999, 37 people remain under sentence of
death. The criminal legal system fails to accommodate people with disabilities who come into
conflict with the law-particularly people with intellectual or psycho-social disabilities.
People with such disabilities may face the choice of facing a mandatory death penalty or being
stripped of legal personhood. Detention conditions also fail to accommodate people with
disabilities.
