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 held more than a dozen executions.
List of executions
This list is currently complete from 1976.
Offender | Age | Date | Victim |
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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 | 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 2 "AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed". BBC News. 6 January 2000. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ↑ "Death Row nearly empty". The Nassau Guardian. 27 August 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
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- ↑ "Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal". BBC News. 15 October 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
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- ↑ 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
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