Bahamas
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- July 10, 1973
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and Assembly Chamber; the Government can dissolve parliament and call for elections at any time
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Privy Council; Court of Appeal, Supreme Court (lower), magistrates' court
RELIGIONS
Christian majority
From the country
- JANUARY 9, 2003BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme...
The Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Sir Dennis Byron, called for careful consideration to be given to the capital punishment debate
- JANUARY 1, 2003BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
- JUNE 26, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Following the brutal murder of the son of a prominent...
Following the brutal murder of the son of a prominent politician between 22-23 June, the Bahamas Christian Council joined other groups calling for enforcement of the death penalty
- APRIL 25, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on English-speaking Caribbean...
Amnesty International called on English-speaking Caribbean nations to abandon the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
- JANUARY 1, 2001BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
- MARCH 10, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared...
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared his personal opposition to the death penalty but said he does not propose to impose his own moral code and conscience on society
- FEBRUARY 24, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Tennel McIntosh, 20, was saved from the gallows when...
Tennel McIntosh, 20, was saved from the gallows when a jury returned a majority verdict of not guilty to the murder and rape of 24-year-old British schoolteacher Joanne Clarke on Paradise Island
- JANUARY 7, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law...
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law firm, CMS McKenna, who led a team of British lawyers who acted for David Mitchell without charge, criticised the speed with which the Bahamian authorities had acted as a breach of international law
- JANUARY 6, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill...
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill prison in the capital Nassau
- JANUARY 5, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmate John Higgs, 51, killed himself while...
Death row inmate John Higgs, 51, killed himself while under suicide watch
- JANUARY 1, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
The death penalty is mandatory for murder