Joseph Solomon was a convicted murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

er and was the most recent person to have been executed

Capital punishment

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 by Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

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Solomon was convicted of murder and rape

Rape

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 in 1979 and sentenced to death, which was mandatory for murder under Saint Lucian law. However, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment

Life imprisonment

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 by the government. In 1993, after serving fourteen years in prison, Solomon was pardoned and released from prison. The next year, Solomon was arrested for murder again. At his 1994 trial, he was again sentenced to death by hanging

Hanging

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Solomon was executed on 17 October 1995, with another prisoner acting as the hangman

Hangman

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. It was the first execution in Saint Lucia since 1986. Since Solomon's execution, no prisoner has been put to death by Saint Lucia.