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.
OffenderAgeDateVictim
Michaiah Shobek2219 October 1976Three American tourists
Charles Dickenson2129 January 1980Desiree Darville
Vernal Storr2429 January 1980Cedric Cleare
Winsette Hart2129 January 1980Cedric Cleare
Gregory Johnson28 April 1981Erwin "Spanky" Edgecombe
Javon Newbold6 September 1983Steadman Brown
Colin V. Evans6 September 1983Jennie Russell
William Armbrister10 April 1984Livingstone and Henry LaFleur
Thomas Reckley4413 March 1996Benjamin Strachan
Dwayne McKinney2428 March 1996Brian Ferguson
Trevor Fisher2815 October 1998Unknown
Richard Woods5115 October 1998Pauline Johnson
David Mitchell276 January 2000Horst and Traude Henning