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The death penalty was suspended due to regular rulings from the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] in London overturning them.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/23/oliverburkeman The Privy Council had previously ruled that the death penalty could only be used for the crime of aggravated murder and that the court must consider all mitigating circumstances and alternative sentences before a death sentence could be issued.
In 2007, ahead of a [[United Nations]] motion calling for a worldwide suspension of the death penalty, the Jamaican government announced that they were looking at reintroducing hanging and the death penalty.https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2007/11/071109_jadeath.shtml The [[Parliament of Jamaica]] voted in 2008 to restore carrying out the death penalty.https://dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu/jamaica-an-abolitionist-de-facto-state-with-no-abolitionist-intentions/
In 2007, ahead of a [[United Nations]] motion calling for a worldwide suspension of the death penalty, the Jamaican government announced that they were looking at reintroducing hanging and the death penalty.https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2007/11/071109_jadeath.shtml The [[Parliament of Jamaica]] voted in 2008 to restore carrying out the death penalty.https://dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu/jamaica-an-abolitionist-de-facto-state-with-no-abolitionist-intentions/
