Oral Hendricks, who was sentenced to death on February 6, 1996, for murdering three children, aged two, four and seven years old, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang late last month.
Justice Chang’s ruling following a motion, filed on behalf of Hendricks by attorney Nigel Hughes, stating that the death penalty was inhuman and degrading.
In a court order that was entered on December 28, 2012, it was stated that “upon reading the Notice of Motion on the part of the above named applicant and the affidavit of the said applicant it is hereby ordered by consent that the death sentence imposed on the above named applicant on February 6, 1996, and not executed,
