Capital punishment in the Bahamas

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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
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. ^ a b "AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed". BBC News. 6 January 2000. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Death Row nearly empty". The Nassau Guardian. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  3. ^ "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal". BBC News. 15 October 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2015-06-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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