1999: Anthony Briggs, last(?) in Trinidad and Tobago
July 28th, 2020 Headsman
The most recent execution in Trinidad and Tobago occurred on this date in 1999.
A month after the much higher-profile hangings of crime boss Dole Chadee and eight of his associates, the far more mundane criminal Anthony Briggs was executed for murdering a taxi driver.
We’d hesitate to call this the last execution in Trinidad and Tobago. That Caribbean country has continued handing down death sentences and resuming executions has intermittently been a hot-button political issue; it’s perhaps largely because its prisoners submit appeals to the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council in Westminster that executions never actually go forward. Should the dam ever break, however, Trinidad and Tobago boasts the second-largest death row in the Americas, after the United States.
On this day..
- 1819: Antonia Santos, Bolivarian revolutionary - 2019
- 1731: Captain Daniel McGuire, griller - 2018
- 1795: Charles de Virot, after the Quiberon debacle - 2017
- 1925: Con O'Leary - 2016
- 1941: Ben Zion bar Shlomo Halberstam, the second Bobever Rebbe - 2015
- 1938: Vladimir Kirshon, Bulgakov antagonist - 2014
- Daily Double: Scenes from the Purge - 2014
- 1976: Christian Ranucci, never yet rehabilitated - 2013
- 1865: Edward William Pritchard, MD - 2012
- Unspecified Year: Tess of the d'Urbervilles - 2011
- 2009: Hiroshi Maeue, suicide website murderer - 2010
- 1540: Thomas Cromwell - 2009
- 1794: Maximilien Robespierre, Saint-Just and the Jacobin leadership - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Milestones,Murder,Trinidad and Tobago
Tags: 1990s, 1999, anthony briggs, july 28
