in the American Declaration, including Articles specific to fair trial, due process and humane treatment
during custody.
3.
Ensure that prisons conditions are compatible with international human rights standards in accordance
with the right of protection against cruel, infamous or unusual punishment.
4.
Given the violations of the American Declaration and the American Convention, the Inter-American
Commission also recommends to Trinidad and Tobago that it abolishes the death penalty, including the
mandatory death penalty.122
Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the 19 day of the month of November,
2020. (Signed): Joel Hernández García, President; Antonia Urrejola Noguera, First Vice President; Flávia Piovesan,
Second Vice President; Margarette May Macaulay, Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Julissa Mantilla Falcón and
Edgar Stuardo Ralón Orellana, Commissioners.
The undersigned, Marisol Blanchard, Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights, in keeping with Article 49 of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure, certifies that this is an
accurate copy of the original deposited in the archives of the IACHR Secretariat.
Marisol Blanchard
Assistant Executive Secretary
See in this regard, IACHR, The death penalty in the Inter-American Human Rights System: From restrictions to abolition,
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.Doc 68, December 31, 2011.
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