Capital punishment in the Bahamas explained
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
Notes and References
- News: AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed . BBC News . 6 January 2000 . 8 November 2012.
- Web site: Death Row nearly empty . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123033059/http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33662&Itemid=27 . 23 November 2015 . . 27 August 2012 . live . February 1, 2013.
- Web site: The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search . https://archive.today/20130124195428/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OqMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3136110&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en . 24 January 2013 . dead.
- Web site: Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search . https://archive.today/20130125145342/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zcQSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4377,3314888&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en . 25 January 2013 . dead.
- Web site: Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search . https://archive.today/20130124142559/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MTFdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DVsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293,3986798&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en . 24 January 2013 . dead.
- News: Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal . BBC News . 15 October 1998 . 8 November 2012.
- Web site: Archived copy . 2015-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160504091645/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RnJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lFYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4165,1889289&dq=bahamas+hanging&hl=en . 2016-05-04 . dead .
- Web site: National Notes . February 14, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820005329/http://www.oii.net/Journal/feb00/notes.shtml . August 20, 2008 .
