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Bahamas: Further information on death penalty
9 August 1999

John Higgs and David Mitchell who were scheduled to be hanged on 10 August 1999 have been granted stays of execution so that the Bahamas Supreme Court can consider ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/003/1999

Bahamas: Government to hang two more in violation of international ...
5 August 1999

News Service: 149/99. AI Index: AMR 14/02/99. 6 August 1999. Bahamas: Government to hang two more in violation of international obligations. ...

Press Release       AMR 14/002/1999

Bahamas: Death penalty
3 August 1999

The Bahamian government has scheduled John Higgs and David Mitchell to be hanged on 10 August 1999. Their executions have been scheduled despite the fact that the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/001/1999

Death Penalty News: December 1998
1 January 1999

1.Total abolition in Bulgaria, Canada, Lithuania; 2. Sierra Leone - 24 soldiers executed by firing squad; 3. Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan - moratoria declared; 4. Pope ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/001/1999

Bahamas: Further information on fear of imminent execution / death ...
18 October 1998

Trevor Nathaniel Pennerman Fisher was hanged on 15 October 1998. Richard Woods, another death row inmate, was executed one hour later. These are the first executions ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/010/1998

The Bahamas: Death penalty : Trevor Nathaniel Pennerman Fisher and ...
14 October 1998

Trevor Nathaniel Pennerman Fisher was hanged on 15 October 1998. Richard Woods, another death row inmate, was executed one hour later. These are the first executions ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/008/1998

Bahamas: Hangings challenge international human rights protection ...
14 October 1998

AMR 14/09/98 News Service 201/98. 15 October 1998. Bahamas: Hangings challenge international human rights protection system. By hanging ...

Press Release       AMR 14/009/1998

The Bahamas: Death penalty: Trevor Nathaniel Pennerman Fisher and ...
12 October 1998

Trevor Fisher and Richard Woods are scheduled to be executed on 15 October 1998, despite the fact that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), who ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/007/1998

Bahamas: Fear of imminent execution / death penalty: Trevor ...
5 October 1998

On 5 October 1998 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), Bahamas' highest appeal court, located in London, ruled that it would not be a violation of ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/006/1998

Bahamas: Asylum-seekers at risk
28 September 1998

This document briefly outlines the situation in the Bahamas where there is concern that refugees are being denied their rights to international protection by the ...

Report       AMR 14/005/1998