Bermuda
2026
STATUSAbolitionist
EXECUTIONS 20260
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary; territory governed autonomously
- CONSTITUTION
- June 8, 1968, amended in 1989 and 2003
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and Assembly Chamber
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Magistrates' Court
RELIGIONS
23% Anglicans, 15% Catholics, 18% other Protestants, other
From the country
- MARCH 1, 1999BermudaDEATH PENALTY
In March, in a formal proposal, the United Kingdom...
In March, in a formal proposal, the United Kingdom said its 13 remaining colonies must scrap the death penalty, drop laws against homosexuality and end secretive banking rules if they want the prestige and security of remaining British
- JANUARY 1, 1999BermudaDEATH PENALTY
A charge of premeditated murder carries a mandatory...
A charge of premeditated murder carries a mandatory death penalty in Bermuda, but the Governor General is allowed to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment