Saint Lucia - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - July 2025
Date: June 17, 2025
Country: Saint Lucia
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: Saint Lucia
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Saint Lucia has observed a de facto moratorium on executions for thirty years, and no
person is currently on death row, yet the country’s criminal code authorizes the death
penalty and people remain at risk of being sentenced to death. During the third-cycle
Universal Periodic Review, Saint Lucia’s authorities expressed a commitment to conduct
public consultations on the death penalty, yet they have taken no steps toward conducting
such consultations since that time. The newly convened Parliamentary Constitutional
Review Committee presents an opportune venue for carrying out meaningful consultations
on alternatives to the death penalty to lay the groundwork for a formal moratorium and a
commitment to abolition of the death penalty.
