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Those circumstances are, however, subject to policy considerations of the State, and
are not concretized in a judicial stay”; and
d)
“there is no guarantee or even a specific undertaking that warrants of
execution will not be issued at the discretion of the […] State.”
4.
The request of the Inter-American Commission that the Court, based on Article 63(2)
of the American Convention, order the State to “take all measures necessary to preserve
[the] life and physical integrity [of Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan] so as not to hinder the
processing of his case before the Inter-American Court and inform the Court immediately
concerning the measures taken to comply with the request.”
5.
The application filed with the Court by the Commission on October 31, 2008,
regarding case No. 12.645 (Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan).
6.
The Order of the President of the Court of November 4, 2008, whereby the President
DECIDE[D]:
1.
To order the State to adopt the provisional measures necessary to protect the life and
physical integrity of Mr. Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan, so as not to hinder the processing of his case
before the Inter-American system.
2.
To require the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within 15 days
of the notification of the present Order, regarding the steps it has taken in fulfillment of this
Order.
3.
To require the representatives of the beneficiary of the present urgent measures to
submit their observations to the State’s report within five days of its reception, and to require the
Commission to submit its observations to the State’s report within seven days of its reception.
[…]
7.
The State’s communication of November 19, 2008, whereby it informed that “Mr.
Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan is incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Prison at Dodds and has not been
executed.” The State also “reiterate[d] […] that under Barbadian law no warrant of
execution can be issued against an individual while either the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is processing his petition, as
a result of the doctrine of legitimate expectation, as established in [the decision of the
Caribbean Court of Justice in the case of] Attorney General et al. v. Jeffrey Joseph and
Lennox Ricardo Boyce. In this case, the Caribbean Court of Justice decided, inter alia, that
the doctrine of legitimate expectation provides an individual with the right to conclude his
petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to have the Commission’s
reports considered by the Barbados Privy Council, and to have his execution stayed until
those processes have been completed.”
8.
The Commission’s communication of December 2, 2008, whereby it observed that:
a)
the information sent by the State is the same that had been provided to the
Commission on July 4, 2008, and to which the Commission gave due consideration,
as stated in its request for provisional measures;
b)
the case law referred to by the State indicates that, in some circumstances, it
would not move forward with steps to execute a death sentence during the pendency
of a petition before an international instance, but that those circumstances are
subject to policy considerations of the State, and are not concretized in a judicial