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Three convicted killers removed from Death Row

Jun 12, 2012 News

 

Prison authorities yesterday acted on the decision of Chief Justice Ian Chang and officially took three convicted killers off Death Row.
The three, Muntaz Ali, Noel Thomas and Lawrence Chan, along with Vivekanand Singh all had their death penalties commuted to life imprisonment last week following successful applications by their respective attorneys.
However, only yesterday prison officials removed Ali, Thomas and Chan from the condemn section of the prison to another area where they await a possible decision of the Committee for the Prerogative of Mercy (Parole Board) of the President.
At present there is no Parole Board so their expected release, having served more than a life sentence already, will have to wait a while.
For some strange reason the other commuted prisoner Vivekanand Singh remained in the condemn section up to last night.
Kaieteur News understands that shortly after the Chief Justice’s decision, the men’s attorneys had threatened to return to the court if they were not removed from the condemn block at the Camp Street prison.
Muntaz Ali has been on death row for 27 years, Thomas for 25 and Chan 19.
Meanwhile, Muntaz Ali’s partner in crime Terrence Sahadeo remains on Death Row, despite a request in 2001 by the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the government to commute his sentence to life in prison.
Sahadeo was not among the prisoners who had approached the Chief Justice, claiming that the cost of retaining an attorney was too prohibitive.
Chief Justice Ian Chang in explaining why he commuted the sentences of the four inmates said that all of them had served what is considered to be a life sentence.
He further told Kaieteur News that for the men, there is no death sentence anymore, and that their release is dependent on the Committee for the Prerogative of Mercy.
The Chief Justice stated that if other prisoners on Death Row would follow procedure they now have to make the application. He said that the court is obligated by law to listen to their cases.

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