A judge on Tuesday rejected the death penalty for a man convicted of double murder because his crime did not meet the criterion of being "the worst of the worst".
Justice Indra Charles sentenced Serrano Adderley, a Jamaican national, to two life sentences for the July 11, 2011 murders of Kevin Forbes and Alwayne Leslie at a Haitian shantytown off Montgomery Avenue.
The jury accepted evidence that Adderley fatally shot Forbes, 40, and Leslie, 28.
Adderley denied that he was at the scene of the crime. However, the main witness for the prosecution, Shawn Knowles, positively identified that the Jamaican was at the scene.
At the time of his testimony, Knowles was out on bail in relation to three murders.
He and another suspect are accused of murdering Edward Braynen, Shackara Rahming and Erica Ward on July 30, 2011.
Ward was Adderley's girlfriend. She was eight months pregnant.
Under Bahamian law fetal homicide is not an offense.
Knowles is expected to be tried for the triple murder in 2015.

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