Antigua and Barbuda has maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 1991. No person is currently under sentence of death, and the Prime Minister has stated as recently as March 2025 that he is not in favor of the death penalty. Nonetheless, authorities have declined to undertake any awareness-raising efforts to build support for abolition of the death penalty, and public outcry after high-profile crimes often includes calls for the death penalty. People charged with potentially capital crimes do not receive timely access to counsel. Detention conditions remain crowded and prison authorities fail to maintain adequate hygiene.