Kent Bowers
Kent Bowers (died 19 June 1985) was a Belizean man convicted of murder and executed by Belize. He is the most recent person to have been executed in Belize.
On 4 July 1984, Bowers, then 17, entered a restaurant in
stabbed
Codd several times. Codd died within minutes of the incident.
Bowers was arrested and charged with
clemency
was rejected by the Governor General (section 52.1Belize Constitution) Dr Dame Minita Gordon .
Bowers was hanged on 19 June 1985 in Her Majesty's prison on Goal Lane Belize City.[2] No one has been executed by Belize since Bowers, but capital punishment remains as a possible legal punishment in Belize.
See also
- Glenford Baptist, Belize's most recent death row prisoner
- Nora Parham, only Belizean woman to be executed
References
- ^ "Court of Appeal, Criminal Appeal No. 13 of 1984 – Kent Bowers v The Queen". Belize Judiciary. Supreme Court of Belize. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ Clark, Richard. "Capital punishment in the British Commonwealth". Capital Punishment U.K. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-86210-164-6) p. 108
External links
- Bowers v. The Queen, Court of Appeal of Belize, 1984, belizelaw.org, accessed 2008-08-14
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