answered this question in the negative by agreeing to consider the constitutional motion of Pratt and Morgan. This is a clear example of the usefulness of the complaint procedure. 19. While only a few communications involving the State party Jamaica had been registered during the period covered by volume 3, an enormous increase in communications by Jamaican nationals awaiting execution led to the application of stricter criteria for the incorporation of such cases in volume 4.. These cases also showed the impact of the Committee’s Views on the viability of legal redress within the Jamaican domestic legal system. After the Committee adopted its Views in Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan at its thirty-fifth session (see Selected Decisions, vol. 3, p. 121), the Committee considered in the Collins case (para. 6.5) and the Wright case (para. 7.3) whether an appeal to the Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council constituted “adequate means of redress” within the meaning of the Jamaican Constitution. The Supreme (Constitutional) Court had earlier 20. In this connection, another issue began to gain importance. In view of the fact that most people awaiting execution had been held on death row for a considerable period of time, the Committee was confronted with the question of whether such treatment could be considered inhuman or degrading treatment under article 7 of the Covenant. In its Views in Barrett and Sutcliffe (Nos. 270 and 271) the Committee replied in the negative, reiterating that prolonged judicial proceedings do not per se constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, even if they may be a source of mental strain and tension for detained persons (para. 8.4). _______________ 4