International Submissions

This report addresses Saint Kitts and Nevis’ efforts to respect, protect, and fulfill its human rights obligations regarding its use of the death penalty. Saint Kitts and Nevis remains the most recent country in the English-speaking Caribbean to carry out an execution, having executed Mr. Charles Laplace on 19 December 2008. In 2018, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Mr. Everson Mitcham, clearing the country’s death row. Nonetheless, the laws of Saint Kitts and Nevis retain the death penalty as an available penalty and people remain at risk of being sentenced to death.