Thursday, July 15, 2004
Barbados Attorney General Mia Mottley has been defending that island position on holding on to the death penealty.
She said that Barbados does not believe that its system of criminal justice is either arbitrary or unfair.
Mottleys statement follows the ruling by the Privy Council in England that there was no legal impediment to the use of the death penalty in Barbados.
The Attorney-General said Barbados went further than most countries to observe fairness.
Mottley added that Barbados would not be dictated to by an aggressive human rights lobby that believes the world must be made in the form of how they cast it.
Mottley noted that Government was not bound to accept any ruling of the Inter-American Court under its domestic law.
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