THE BAHAMAS. THE DEATH PENALTY WILL BE CARRIED OUT, ATTORNEY GENERAL

if judges hand down death sentences, the government would see to it that they are carried out, said Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson. Her assurance came at a recent press conference during which she explained that while the government had no choice but to follow the Privy Council’s ruling which effectively abolished the mandatory death sentence, it would enforce the law of the land. 
"Justice is going to be swift," Mrs. Maynard-Gibson said. "Once there is a sentence, obviously it doesn’t impact anyone’s right of appeal, but certainly right after sentence, as quickly as possible, there will be a death warrant read then the person against whom that warrant has been read will take whatever steps [he or she] deems necessary, but the state intends to fully enforce the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas."
She stressed that under the laws of the country, the death penalty was constitutional.
"So if the court again gives the death penalty, I want citizens to be assured that it would be carried out," the attorney general said. Her comment followed a renewed call by the international human rights organization, Amnesty International, for The Bahamas to abolish the death penalty.