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The Governor requested the order be expedited so he did not have to carry out the execution. [3] Queen Elizabeth II issued the Order-in-Council abolishing the death penalty for murder in the UK's dependent territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. [1] The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. [1] As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Grenada.Despite its legality, there have been no executions since 1978. [1] [2] Grenada is considered "abolitionist in practice", and is currently the only country in the Americas in this category. [3]
Last execution date Name Crime Method A Cook Islands: none since self-government on 4 August 1965: A Micronesia: none since independence on 3 November 1986 [176] A Fiji: none since independence on 10 October 1970 [4] A Kiribati: none since independence on 12 July 1979 [4] A Marshall Islands: none since independence on 21 October 1986 [177] A Nauru
Firing squad. Death penalty for aggravated murder, murder, rape (if it results in the death of the victim), barbaric actions including torture, and aggravated rape. [68] Persons excluded from capital punishment are pregnant women, women with small children, teenagers who were under 18 at the time of the crime, and the mentally ill.
The last person executed in Jamaica was Nathan Foster, who was convicted of murder and hanged in 1988. The Jamaican Parliament had placed a moratorium on the death penalty until 2009, when it was lifted. Since 2009, capital punishment is legal and executions in Jamaica could resume; however, there have been no executions since.
The death penalty can only be applied for aggravated murder and treason. [1] Since gaining its sovereignty in 1983, St. Kitts and Nevis has executed only three individuals, with its most recent execution having been carried out in 2008, when Charles Laplace was hanged for murdering his wife. [2] As of 2018, the country has no inmates on death ...
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