In response to the ruling, former Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj SC and the man who was the last to use the death penalty in this country says, Parliament has always held the power of the death penalty.

He says legislators lack the will.

Mr. Maharaj says this is not the first time The Privy Council has admonished the Parliament on this matter.

The last time the death penalty was used in Trinidad and Tobago was back in 1999 when drug lord and gang leader Dole Chadee and 8 others were hanged for the murder of the Baboolal family.