{"id":39014,"date":"2013-09-04T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39014"},"modified":"2013-09-04T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:49:56","slug":"bring-back-hanging-to-solve-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/bring-back-hanging-to-solve-crime","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back Hanging To Solve Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis yesterday urged the government to get serious about the country\u2019s crime problem by having small laws enforced and \u201changing\u201d criminals.<\/p>\n

Minnis spoke out after three men and a woman were killed in separate shootings between Friday and Monday.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s killing brought the year\u2019s murder count to 77.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must enforce the law, but all laws from petty crimes straight up,\u201d Minnis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople must see us as being serious and no government will succeed until the public understands what law and order truly is.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for crime, the government must do whatever is necessary, expedite cases and hang individuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must hang, hanging is on the books.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one was hanged under the recent Ingraham administration.<\/p>\n

Various landmark rulings of the Privy Council have made it increasingly difficult to carry out capital punishment.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been a hanging in The Bahamas since David Mitchell met his fate at the gallows on January 6, 2000.<\/p>\n

The Bahamas hanged 50 men since 1929, according to records kept at Her Majesty\u2019s Prisons. Five of them were hanged under previous Ingraham administrations; 13 were hanged under the 25-year rule of the Pindling government; and the remainder were executed between 1929 and 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis is urging government to take a serious stance on crime, enforce petty laws and bring back capital punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-39014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}