BAHAMAS: GOVT POSTPONES AMENDED DEATH PENALTY LEGISLATION

the Bahamas government postponed the introduction of amended death penalty legislation that was expected to be tabled in the House of Assembly before MPs took their summer recess. Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham yesterday said by e-mail that the changes to the legislation are "incomplete." He added that the new law should be brought to Parliament "later in the year."
In late June, Mr Ingraham announced plans to bring to Parliament updated capital punishment legislation that would strengthen death sentence cases from being overturned on appeal by the Privy Council.