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 carried out more than a dozen executions.

## List of executions

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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  | 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

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* Law of the Bahamas

## References

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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. ^ "National Notes". Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2013.

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* Antigua and Barbuda
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Capital punishment

Current judicial methods|

* Hanging
* Shooting
* firing squad
* Lethal injection
* Nitrogen hypoxia
* Electrocution
* Gas chamber
* Beheading
* Stoning

Ancient and
post-classical
methods|

* Damnatio ad bestias
* Blood eagle
* Blowing from a gun
* Brazen bull
* Boiling
* Breaking wheel
* Burial
* Burning
* Crucifixion
* Crushing
* Decimation
* Disembowelment
* Dismemberment
* Drowning
* Republican marriage
* Elephant
* Falling
* Flaying
* Garrote
* Gibbeting
* Guillotine
* Hanged, drawn and quartered
* Immurement
* Impalement
* Ishikozume
* Mazzatello
* Sawing
* Scaphism
* Seppuku
* Slow slicing
* Stoning
* Suffocation in ash
* Upright jerker
* Waist chop

Related topics|

* Enforcement or use by country
* Most recent executions by country
* Crime
* Death row
* Executioner
* list
* Scharfrichter
* Final statement
* Last meal
* Penology
* List of methods
* Nine familial exterminations
* Religion and capital punishment
* Wrongful execution
* Botched execution
* Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations
* Capital punishment for drug trafficking
* Capital punishment for homosexuality
* Trial by ordeal

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