death penalty - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sun, 12 Dec 2021 12:02:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Nun’s killer freed in death penalty ruling https://bahamascourtnews.com/nuns-killer-freed-in-death-penalty-ruling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nuns-killer-freed-in-death-penalty-ruling Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:07:51 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4703 NASSAU- When Michelle Woodside was sentenced to hang for the infamous 1991 murder of Catholic Nun Sister Claire Hass, the death penalty was mandatory. However, a 2006 Privy Council decision that declared the mandatory imposition of the death penalty unconstitutional paved the way for her release from prison. On October 15, 1991 Our Lady’s Rectory […]

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]]> Court rejects second chance appeal for man who killed ex https://bahamascourtnews.com/court-rejects-second-chance-appeal-for-man-who-killed-ex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-rejects-second-chance-appeal-for-man-who-killed-ex Mon, 22 Nov 2021 10:40:15 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4506 NASSAU- A jealous man who killed his ex-girlfriend has lost a bid to reopen an appeal against his life sentence. Angelo “Nasty” Brennen asked the Court of Appeal to revisit his sentence for the 2004 shooting murder of Ruthmae Pinder—13 years after he dropped a challenge to it. According to Brennen, he had confused the […]

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]]> Bahamas hanged 13 since independence https://bahamascourtnews.com/bahamas-hanged-13-since-independence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bahamas-hanged-13-since-independence Thu, 15 Apr 2021 04:01:17 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=3706 Facts Although capital punishment remains on the books, just 13 people have been executed in The Bahamas since the country attained independence on July 10, 1976. In 2000, David Mitchell was the last person sentenced to death. Convicted of the 1994 stabbing deaths of Horst and Traude Jennings as they slept in their home in […]

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]]> Cop killer Timothy Cole avoids death penalty with guilty plea https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-killer-timothy-cole-avoids-death-penalty-with-guilty-plea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-killer-timothy-cole-avoids-death-penalty-with-guilty-plea Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:30:21 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=542 NASSAU-The man who killed a policeman during a carjacking gone wrong has pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. Timothy Cole, 49, pleaded guilty to the murder and armed robbery of Inspector Carlis Blatch on Monday, February 10, before a jury was selected to try him. Prosecutors had planned on pursuing the death penalty but […]

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