077: Michael X in Trinidad

Michael X, died on the gallows in the royal jail in May 1975, despite urgent last‐minute pleas for commutation of his sentence. The first execution on the Caribbean island of Trinidad since 1957, was not met with any public demonstrations or protests in Trinidad but marked by international support of Malik by activists in the UK and USA.Michael was charged with the murder of 24 year old Joseph Skerritt whose body was found buried next to Gale Benson also thought to have been murdered at Michael X's commune in 1972. To find out the chilling facts of this case and the impact it eventually had on the death penalty in the Caribbean tune in.