Capital punishment in the Bahamas

Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison.[1] The country is currently considered abolitionist in practice, as their last execution was over 15 years ago, on January 6, 2000.[1] As of August 2012 only one convict, Mario Flowers, remains under the sentence of death.[2] Since independence from Britain, it has held more than a dozen executions.

List of executions

This list is currently complete from 1976.

Offender Age Date Victim
Michaiah Shobek[3] 22 19 October 1976 3 American tourists
Charles Dickenson[4] 21 29 January 1980 Desiree Darville
Vernal Storr 24 29 January 1980 Cedric Cleare
Winsette Hart 21 29 January 1980 Cedric Cleare
Gregory Johnson 28 April 1981 Erwin "Spanky" Edgecombe
Javon Newbold 6 September 1983 Steadman Brown
Colin V. Evans 6 September 1983 Jennie Russell
William Armbrister 10 April 1984 Livingstone and Henry LaFleur
Thomas Reckley 44 13 March 1996 Benjamin Strachan
Dwayne McKinney[5] 24 28 March 1996 Brian Ferguson
Trevor Fisher 28 15 October 1998 Unknown
Richard Woods[6] 51 15 October 1998 Pauline Johnson[7]
David Mitchell 27 6 January 2000 Horst and Traude Henning[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed". BBC News. 6 January 2000. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Death Row nearly empty". The Nassau Guardian. 27 August 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
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  6. ↑ "Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal". BBC News. 15 October 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
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  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080820005329/http://www.oii.net/Journal/feb00/notes.shtml. Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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