Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death. Flowers' death sentence was commuted in 2016. Since independence from Britain, it has carried out more than a dozen executions.

List of executions This list is currently complete from 1976. Offender Age Date Victim Michaiah Shobek 22 19 October 1976 Three American tourists Charles Dickenson 21 29 January 1980 Desiree Darville Vernal Storr 24 29 January 1980 Cedric Cleare Winsette Hart 21 29 January 1980 Cedric Cleare Gregory Johnson 24 28 April 1981 Erwin "Spanky" Edgecombe Javon Newbold 6 September 1983 Steadman Brown Colin V. Evans 6 September 1983 Jennie Russell William Armbrister 10 April 1984 Livingstone and Henry LaFleur Thomas Reckley 44 13 March 1996 Benjamin Strachan Dwayne McKinney 24 28 March 1996 Brian Ferguson Trevor Fisher 28 15 October 1998 Durventon Daniels Richard Woods 51 15 October 1998 Pauline Johnson David Mitchell 27 6 January 2000 Horst and Traude Henning

See also Law of the Bahamas

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