Capital punishment in the Bahamas
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 last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000.[1] As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death. Flowers' death sentence was commuted in 2016.[2] Since independence from Britain, it has carried out 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 | Three 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 | 24 | 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 | Durventon Daniels |
| Richard Woods[6] | 51 | 15 October 1998 | Pauline Johnson[7] |
| David Mitchell | 27 | 6 January 2000 | Horst and Traude Henning[8] |
See also
References
- ^ a b "AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed". BBC News. 6 January 2000. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "Death Row nearly empty". The Nassau Guardian. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ^ "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
- ^ "Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal". BBC News. 15 October 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "National Notes". Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
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