THE government yesterday hanged a 55-year-old man for drug trafficking, its narcotics enforcement agency said, the city-state’s third execution in a week as the United Nations called for a halt.
# The death penalty has not been carried out in the Bahamas since 2000. In 2006, the Privy Council ruled that mandatory death sentences for murder were unconstitutional.
An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s ...