only many years later, an addendum recorded that he was executed for murder. C.L.R. James, the Trinidadian historian who wrote much about cricket and socio-political issues, said nothing about Hylton, while Michael Manley, in his comprehensive 1988 History of West Indies Cricket, refers to "Leslie Hylton, that fine but ill-fated Jamaican fast bowler", without providing further explanation. Learie Constantine made no reference to Hylton in his various cricket writings; of Hylton's playing contemporaries, only Stollmeyer provides a brief pen picture. Two years after Hylton's death, the law in Jamaica relating to provocation was changed, so that determining what was sufficient to establish a defence became a matter for the jury rather than a judge's direction. Had that law existed in Hylton's time, it might have saved him. Whitaker sums up Hylton's fate thus: "Leslie Hylton, in his treatment by cricket's hierarchy, and the unforgiving punishment for a crime of passion, was seen by many as a symbol of how hard, and perhaps how unfair, life could be for those born into the poverty of Jamaica's working class". Capital punishment remains legal in Jamaica. However, it has not been carried out since 1988, when a moratorium suspended its operation for 20 years. When the moratorium expired the Jamaican parliament voted to retain the death penalty, but it has remained unused as at early 2019. Notes and references Notes Citations Sources Books Newspapers and magazines Online (Reproduced from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1956) (Reproduced from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1956) (Reproduced from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1940) (Republished from original article in The Cricketer, March 2015) Scorecards 1905 births 1955 deaths Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica Jamaican cricketers West Indies Test cricketers People executed for murder Executed Jamaican people People executed by the Colony of Jamaica by hanging Jamaican people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Jamaica Jamaica cricketers Sportspeople convicted of murder