Bahamas

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Bahamas: Further information on fear of imminent execution and new ...
14 January 1998

Roger Chad Goodman, Anatole Mcquay, Sean Poitier and Alexander Williams: These individuals, scheduled to be hanged on 13 January 1998, have all received reprieves ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/002/1998

Bahamas: Fear of imminent execution:
8 January 1998

Roger Chad Goodman, Anatole Mcquay, Sean Poitier and Alexander Williams: On 13 January 1998 death warrants have been issued for the hanging of the above-named individuals ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/001/1998

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: John Higgs
27 July 1997

John Higgs has received a stay of execution pending the outcome of his petition for leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/003/1997

Bahamas: Death penalty: John Higgs
20 July 1997

John Higgs has been read a warrant for his execution to be carried out on 29 July 1997 at 8am local time.

Urgent Action       AMR 14/002/1997

Bahamas: further information on: death penalty: Ricardo Farrington
14 October 1996

The above, who was originally scheduled to be executed on 9 April 1996, has had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Judicial Committee of the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/013/1996

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: Trevor Nathaniel ...
8 October 1996

A further stay of execution, until January 1997, has been granted to allow for an appeal to the Bahamas Court of Appeal.

Urgent Action       AMR 14/012/1996

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: Trevor Nathaniel ...
11 September 1996

The above, who was scheduled to be executed in the Bahamas today, has received a temporary stay of execution until 30 September to allow for a constitutional appeal ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/011/1996

Bahamas: Fear of imminent execution: Trevor Nathaniel Fisher
8 September 1996

Trevor Nathaniel Fisher is due to be hanged on 12 September 1996. It is reported that the Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy advised the Governor General that ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/010/1996

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty
4 July 1996

Stephen Charles Swaby, Richard Woods: The above, who were scheduled to be executed on 5 July, have both been granted stays of execution pending the outcome of their ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/009/1996

Bahamas: Death penalty
27 June 1996

Stephen Charles Swaby, Richard Woods: The above are scheduled to be executed on 5 July 1996. There is concern that the two men may not have exhausted all their ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/008/1996