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The law of the Bahamas makes provisions for the appointment of 12 Justices to the Bench of the Supreme Court, inclusive of the Chief Justice, and for five Justices of the Court of Appeal, inclusive of the President. The Chief Justice, as Head of the Judiciary, is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal, but only sits at the invitation of ...
Lucayan National Park on Grand Bahama Island. Two Kentucky women said they were raped on February 4, 2024 after their drinks were spiked while on the island during a cruise.
Police in the Bahamas this week arrested two people on sexual assault charges after two American women on a Carnival cruise said they were drugged and raped while in the country.
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.
David Mitchell (1972 – 6 January 2000) was a Bahamian murderer who killed two German tourists in the Bahamas and was executed as a result. He is the most recent executed prisoner to be performed by the Bahamas. Mitchell was convicted of stabbing his victims to death and received the mandatory sentence of death by hanging. He was originally ...
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The U.S. embassy in the Bahamas has released a security warning and travel advisory that the island nation is currently unsafe for tourists amidst 18 murders — “primarily” motivated by gang ...
Not until 1982, under pressure from US law enforcement, and despite years of turning a blind eye, did the Bahamian government begin to crack down on the island's drug smuggling operations. In 1987, after Lehder was arrested in Colombia and extradited to stand trial in the U.S., his property in the Bahamas was confiscated.