Bahamas
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The death penalty is mandatory for murder
- News items in the archive
- 66
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 66 news items on Bahamas, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- 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
- 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