Bahamas
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1998
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- OCTOBER 1, 1998 · The last people executed in The Bahamas were Trevor...
- News items in the archive
- 83
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Bahamas is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 83 news items on Bahamas, from 1998 to today.
Latest news
- OCTOBER 5, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
With 726 violent deaths since January in a country of 2
With 726 violent deaths since January in a country of 2
- 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
- MARCH 15, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Several governments in the Caribbean are expected to...
Several governments in the Caribbean are expected to speed up plans to establish a regional court after a ruling by Britain's Privy Council that the mandatory death penalty is in violation of the constitutions of several countries
- MARCH 13, 2002BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the...
Human rights lawyers in the Carribean applauded the ruling by Britain's Privy Council judges that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional in seven Caribbean countries
- 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
- JANUARY 1, 2001BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The resumption of hanging in March 1996, after a moratorium...
The resumption of hanging in March 1996, after a moratorium of almost 12 years, appears to have done little to curb murders in the Bahamas
- 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
- JANUARY 1, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The resumption of hanging in March 1996, after a moratorium...
The resumption of hanging in March 1996, after a moratorium of almost 12 years, appears to have done little to curb murders in the Bahamas
- DECEMBER 1, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
In early December, the Privy Council in London, the...
In early December, the Privy Council in London, the final court of appeal for many former British territories, dismissed appeals by Higgs and Mitchell
- NOVEMBER 3, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
On November 3, the Second Secretary of the Bahamas'...
On November 3, the Second Secretary of the Bahamas' mission, Cecil C
- AUGUST 1, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
In August, the Government of The Bahamas dealt another...
In August, the Government of The Bahamas dealt another blow to the inter-American system of human rights protection by scheduling the hangings of the two men, despite the fact that their petitions were pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human
- JULY 22, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
On July 22, the Bahamian Mercy Committee reviewed the...
On July 22, the Bahamian Mercy Committee reviewed the capital sentences of John Higgs, 50, and David Mitchell, 26, and advised that mercy was not warranted
- JULY 22, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The Bahamas signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999,...
The Bahamas signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
The death penalty is mandatory for murder
- JANUARY 1, 1999BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary...
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions denounced the execution of Trevor Fisher and Richard Woods on October 1998
- OCTOBER 1, 1998BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The last people executed in The Bahamas were Trevor...
The last people executed in The Bahamas were Trevor Fisher and Richard Woods, in October 1998