Displaying items by tag: Death Penalty
45 years to life: Gov't proposes harsher penalties for murder
The Jamaican Government is moving to change the penalty for murder.
Jamaica should have popped Rushane Barnett’s neck – the death penalty is still in force, use it.
By Andrew Clunis
Jamaica has squandered a perfect opportunity to send a very strong signal to the hordes of marauding killers in the country, in the failure to sentence and execute Clarendon massacre butcher, Rushane Barnett.
DPP hails judge on sentence in Cocoa Piece massacre
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, KC, has described as "spot on" the ruling of Supreme Court Judge Justice Leighton Pusey who on Thursday handed 23-year-old convict Rushane Barnett five life sentences for the slaying of his cousin and her four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June this year.
Death Penalty Off the Cards for Cocoa Piece Murderer
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has pulled the death penalty as a sentencing option for Rushane Barnett, the Trelawny man charged for the June 21 murder of his cousin and her four children in Cocoa Piece, Chapelton, Clarendon.
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Mother of Murdered Clarendon Mother and Her Four Children Welcomes Death Penalty Motion
The mother of the Clarendon woman who was slain along with her four children last week says the man now before the court for their murder should die a slow death, even as she admitted that if he is executed it would not bring back her daughter and grandchildren.
DPP To Seek Death Penalty Against Man Charged With Clarendon Massacre
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is to seek the death penalty against Rushane Barnett, the man accused of killing a mother and her four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon last week.