The Privy Council’s recent ruling on the death penalty in the case of Maxo Tido has unwittingly said to criminals ‘you can get away with your next crime,’ according to Bishop Simeon Hall, who chaired the government-appointed National Advisory Council on Crime.<\/p>\n
Hall said it is clear that if families of murder victims are to ever have justice, The Bahamas must abandon the Privy Council, at least for murder appeals.<\/p>\n
One of the recommendations the Crime Council made to the Ingraham administration is to resume capital punishment.<\/p>\n
But various Privy Council decisions over the years have set such a strict standard for the imposition of the death penalty, the government has been unable to carry out the law in this regard.<\/p>\n
Hall pointed out that a study by Police Sergeant Chaswell Hanna noted that in a five-year period when 349 murders were recorded in The Bahamas, there were only 10 murder convictions and two death sentences issued.<\/p>\n
“Last year was a record number of murders and I understand that we had no more than two or three convictions,” Hall said. “This disparity between criminal behavior and the justice system, is it the police, is it the lawyers, is it the justice system?”<\/p>\n
He said the law lords of the Privy Council are clearly out of touch with what is happening in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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