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Apr 13, 2013 News
Death row inmate Colin Smart’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, yesterday by Chief Justice Ian Chang.
Smart was represented by Attorney at Law George Thomas. He was initially incarcerated for robbery underarms. It was while in prison that Smart allegedly murdered fellow inmate Raymond Sparman. In March 1996 he was convicted and sentenced to death, by then Chief Justice Cecil Kennard. His conviction was affirmed in May 1999 by the Court of Appeal.
His lawyer on March 5, 2013 moved to the courts and filed an order nisi. According to the lawyer, the delay in carrying out this sentence is tantamount to inhumane and degrading treatment.
Only last February, death row inmate Derrick Callender had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, while Safraz Rahim’s death sentence was quashed and replaced with a 10-year prison term.
The judgments were handed down by Chief Justice Ian Chang. They were both represented by Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos. Derrick Callender was charged with Gary Moses but was tried separately on indictments which accused them of killing 53-year-old Leila Barrow, at her David Street, Kitty, home between July 23 and July 24, 1993.
The Appeal Court set aside the death sentence imposed on Moses and ordered him to stand a retrial. Derrick Callender was convicted and remained incarcerated for 20 years. He spent 17 of those on Death Row.
Safraz Rahim was charged with murder on July 1, 2003 for killing a man on the West Bank of Demerara. Rahim had chopped a man to death after responding to a call for help from his sister-in-law. He was convicted and sentenced to death on June 5, 2005.
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