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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.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/593021.stm |title=AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2000 |access-date=8 November 2012}} The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death. Flowers' death sentence was commuted in 2016.{{cite web |url=http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33662&Itemid=27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123033059/http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33662&Itemid=27 |archive-date=23 November 2015 |publisher=The Nassau Guardian |date=27 August 2012 |title=Death Row nearly empty |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2013}} Since independence from Britain, it has carried out more than a dozen executions.

List of executions

This list is currently complete from 1976.

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Offender

! Age

! Date

! Victim

Michaiah Shobek{{Cite web |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OqMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3136110&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |title=The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124195428/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OqMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899,3136110&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |archive-date=24 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}

| 22

| 19 October 1976

| Three American tourists

Charles Dickenson{{Cite web |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zcQSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4377,3314888&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |title=Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125145342/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zcQSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4377,3314888&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |archive-date=25 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}

| 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

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| 6 September 1983

| Steadman Brown

Colin V. Evans

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| 6 September 1983

| Jennie Russell

William Armbrister

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| 10 April 1984

| Livingstone and Henry LaFleur

Thomas Reckley

| 44

| 13 March 1996

| Benjamin Strachan

Dwayne McKinney{{Cite web |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MTFdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DVsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293,3986798&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |title=Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124142559/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MTFdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DVsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293,3986798&dq=bahamas+execution&hl=en |archive-date=24 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}

| 24

| 28 March 1996

| Brian Ferguson

Trevor Fisher

| 28

| 15 October 1998

| Durventon Daniels

Richard Woods{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/194172.stm |title=Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal |work=BBC News |date=15 October 1998 |access-date=8 November 2012}}

| 51

| 15 October 1998

| Pauline Johnson{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RnJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4165,1889289&dq=bahamas+hanging&hl=en |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504091645/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RnJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lFYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4165,1889289&dq=bahamas+hanging&hl=en |archive-date=2016-05-04 |url-status=dead }}

David Mitchell

| 27

| 6 January 2000

| Horst and Traude Henning{{cite web|url=http://www.oii.net/Journal/feb00/notes.shtml |access-date=February 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820005329/http://www.oii.net/Journal/feb00/notes.shtml |archive-date=August 20, 2008 |title=National Notes }}

See also

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