The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday described Justice Ian Chang’s commutation of the death penalty of four prisoners to life imprisonment as “courageous”, and declared it “a welcome rejoinder to the evasion and duplicity by popularity-pandering politicians over the years.”
According to the GHRA in a press release, Justice Chang’s verdict “spotlights the incompatibility of the medieval cruelty of the death penalty with evolving minimum humanitarian standards acceptable to the modern world.”
The human rights body noted that “since the current ruling party came to power in 1992, it has made no bones about its preference for reviving hanging. The only restraint to ending the moratorium introduced by President Hoyte in 1990, following the
