Saint Kitts and Nevis - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - July 2025
Date: June 17, 2025
Country: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
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.
