Three murder convicts whose death sentences were invalidated by a 2006 Privy Council decision that declared the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional appeared before a Supreme Court judge yesterday.
Labra Green, Philip White and Garnet Roberts will return before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs on May 30 for re-sentencing. All of the convicts asked Isaacs to appoint counsel for them.
Green was sentenced to death for the March 28, 1989 murder of Wilton Hilton Stubbs at Sandy Point, Abaco.
White, whose nickname is "Fee", was sentenced to death for the murder of Wayne Wilson, a tourist, on March 21, 1989, at New Providence.
Roberts was condemned to hang for the January 16, 1989 murders of Desiree Watkins, Larry Watkins, and Blondell Watkins at Freeport, Grand Bahama.
At the sentencing hearing, Isaacs will consider the circumstances of the crimes and the progress the convicts made while in custody to consider if they are qualified for re-entry into society.
Larry Raymond Jones was the first person to be released from prison in 2007 as a result of the change in the law.
Other murder convicts who were resentenced and have since been freed are Anthony Neely; Arnold Heastie; Nekita Hamilton; Stafford Clarke; Jeremiah Poitier; Michelle Woodside; Quincy Todd; Patrick Jervis; Garnet Jones; Barry Roberts; Jeronimo Bowleg; Clive Schroeter and James Dean.
Other murder convicts have received fixed prison terms and life terms on resentencing.

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