988) is an Order-in-Council issued by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty for murder in the British Dependent Territories in the Caribbean.

[2] The reason for them not being included was due to local favour of retaining the death penalty.

Such was the strength of feeling that in 1978, the Royal Navy sent a warship to the British Virgin Islands in preparation for any unrest after the Governor of the British Virgin Islands elected to commute death sentences.

[2] In 1991, the Governor of Anguilla Brian Canty had come under local criticism for commuting the death sentence of a Grenadan prisoner against the advice of the Prerogative of Mercy Committee of the Anguillian Executive Council.

[6] The Turks and Caicos Islands retained the death penalty for treason and piracy before completely abolishing it in 2002 due to the British government exercising powers to do so under the West Indies Act 1962.