Attorney Jerry Edwin has filed a motion in the High Court calling on the Grenada government to remove flogging as a penalty for people who are convicted for offenses in the magistrate court.
“Grenada is the only jurisdiction in the entire Western Hemisphere with this law on its books. Grenada is in very unadmirable company. I want to completely eviscerate this law from our books,” said Edwin, a criminal lawyer.
“So, my motion is to amend the Criminal Code to remove flogging as a punishment for predial larceny otherwise known as stealing farm products and robbery with violence,” he added.
Edwin explained that for several decades, judicial officers, and magistrates in particular, have abused this form of punishment by ordering flogging for robbery, traffic offenses, offensive language and all sorts of offenses not permitted under law.
