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BAHAMAS: LOCKHART MURDER APPEAL DISMISSED

21 October 2008 :

the Court of Appeal in the Bahamas dismissed the appeal by Ernest Lockhart against his conviction and death sentence. He is convicted of killing Claxton Smith. Additionally, the court dismissed the appeal by Lockhart’s co-accused Jeffrey Prosper on conviction.
 
(Sources: Bahama Journal, 15/10/2008)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.