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 country is currently considered abolitionist in practice, as their last execution was over 15 years ago, on January 6, 2000.^[1] As of August 2012 only one convict, Mario Flowers, remains under the sentence of death.^[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	3 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. "AMERICAS | Bahamas convict executed". BBC News. 6 January 2000. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
2. "Death Row nearly empty". The Nassau Guardian. 27 August 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
6. "Americas | Two executed in Bahamas despite appeal". BBC News. 15 October 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
8. http://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 |title= (help)