Frederick Atkins

Frederick Atkins

Frederick Atkins (died 2005) was a convicted murderer who received a mandatory sentence of death from a court in Barbados. He died in prison while the Inter-American Court of Human Rights was considering his appeal.

Atkins was a bus driver prior to his murder trial. In 1998, Atkins was convicted of the murder of 20-year-old Sharmaine Hurley and in 2000 received a mandatory death sentence. He received a death warrant in June 2002 but it was stayed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the supreme court of Barbados. On 3 September 2004, Atkins and three other death row inmates in Barbados appealed their sentences to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

On 9 February 2005, Barbados issued another death warrant for Atkins, informing him that he was scheduled to be executed by hanging on 14 February. After appeals to the government by Amnesty International and the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the Barbados High Court agreed to stay the execution.

Later in 2005, Atkins died in prison of an illness. In December 2007, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights ruled that Atkins's mandatory sentence and the mandatory sentence provisions of the Barbados murder statute violate the right to life guarantees of the American Convention on Human Rights.

References

*United Nations, [http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/FE5C338C805CC15AC1256FA80030B730?opendocument "United Nations Expert on Arbitrary Killings Appeals to Barbados to Stop Execution"] , 2005-02-12, press release, accessed 2008-08-08
*Amnesty International, [http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR150012005?open&of=ENG-BRB Barbados: "Imminent Execution"] , 2005-02-11, press release, accessed 2008-08-08
*Amnesty International, [http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR150022005?open&of=ENG-BRB "Barbados: Further information on: Imminent execution, Fredrick Atkins"] , 2005-02-14, press release, accessed 2008-08-08
*Doughty Street Chambers, [http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/news_detail.cfm?iNewsID=235 "Inter-American Court Ruling on Death Penalty in Barbados"] , 2007-12-20, press release, accessed 2008-08-08


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