All in place for hanging of four
SOME lawyers were yesterday reportedly still making last minute bids to obtain a stay of execution for the four convicted murderers on death row due to be hanged tomorrow and Tuesday at the Georgetown Prisons. According to reports some lawyers were at the prisons yesterday, but a senior Prisons official said everything is in place for the hanging of Rovinda Deo, Ganga Deolall, Lawrence Chan and Oral Hendricks to proceed as programmed unless something untoward happens. The convicted men were all read warrants confirming their execution on Thursday. On Monday, Deo who was convicted for the November 1994 kidnap and subsequent murder of eight-year-old schoolboy Vishnu Bhim, and Oral Hendricks who on December 12, 1992 drowned three children in a canal, are to make the final walk to the gallows. The following day, Ganga Deolall who in October 1993 brutally murdered Yvette Lall with whom he had a previous relationship, then used a crankshaft to sink her body in the Demerara River, is to be hanged. Chan who was given the death sentence for the murder of two men at Port Kaituma is also to be hanged Tuesday. A source told the Chronicle that the time has come when the line has got to be drawn somewhere regarding the granting of `stay of execution' to convicted prisoners, as Prison Officers have become the laughing stock of some prisoners because of such actions. The Guyana Government has on numerous occasions restated its stand for carrying out the death penalty.
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