Kent Bowers

Kent Bowers (died 19 June 1985) was a Belizean man convicted of murder and executed by Belize.

On 4 July 1984, Bowers, then 17, entered a restaurant in Belize City where Francis Codd and Dora Codd were hosting a private party for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

According to testimony heard when the case later went to trial, Bowers was asked to leave and their son, Robert Codd, escorted him to the door.

[1] Bowers's petition for 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.