Bahamas

Human Rights in COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

Bahamas: medical concern: corporal punishment
22 August 1995

Two men, Leavon Williamson and Melvin Saunders, convicted of rape and robbery in separate incidents were each sentenced to a 25 year prison term and 12 strokes ...

Report       AMR 14/010/1995

Bahamas: flogging: Leavon Williamson, Melvin Saunders
6 August 1995

Leavon Williamson and Melvin Saunders have been sentenced to be flogged in the Bahamas. Part of Leavon Williamson's sentence is reported already to have been carried ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/008/1995

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: Thomas Reckley
15 June 1995

Thomas Reckley has received a stay of execution.

Urgent Action       AMR 14/007/1995

Bahamas: death penalty: Thomas Reckley
30 May 1995

EXTERNAL (for general distribution)AI Index: AMR 14/06/95. Distr: UA/SC. EXTRA 62/95Death Penalty31 May 1995. BAHAMASThomas RECKLEY. ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/006/1995

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: Trevor Nixon
24 May 1995

Trevor Nixon, who was scheduled to be executed on 25 May, received a last minute stay of execution. They stay was granted for six months in order to allow his attorneys ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/004/1995

Bahamas: Further information on death penalty: Trevor Nixon
22 May 1995

Trevor Nixon remains scheduled to be executed in the Bahamas on 25 May 1995.

Urgent Action       AMR 14/003/1995

Bahamas: death penalty: Trevor Nixon
14 May 1995

Trevor Nixon is scheduled to be executed in the Bahamas on 25 May 1995. He was reportedly sentenced to death for murder on 20 February 1992. It is not known whether ...

Urgent Action       AMR 14/002/1995

News Release - AI team visits the Bahamas to investigate the ...
30 August 1994

NEWS RELEASE. 30 August 1994AI Index: AMR 14/01/94. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TEAM VISITS THE BAHAMAS TO INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION OF HAITIAN REFUGEES. ...

Press Release       AMR 14/001/1994

Amnesty International News Service 144/93
2 November 1993

1. Jamaica: Decision in case of two Jamaican prisoners should save prisoners' lives across the Caribbean.

Report       NWS 11/144/1993

Medical letter writing action: English-speaking Caribbean ...
18 February 1993

This paper gives information of the use of corporal punishment in three countries in the English-speaking Caribbean: The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados ...

Report       AMR 05/001/1993