Capital punishment in the Bahamas

Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. 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. 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 22 19 October 1976 Three American tourists
Charles Dickenson 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 24 28 March 1996 Brian Ferguson
Trevor Fisher 28 15 October 1998 Durventon Daniels
Richard Woods 51 15 October 1998 Pauline Johnson
David Mitchell 27 6 January 2000 Horst and Traude Henning

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