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News : Latin America

Crime and populism prevent abolition in the Caribbean (2010/2/28)

Caroline Muchuma, contributor to the round table on the vital role played by lawyers in defending those sentenced to death, describing her role as a lawyer and campaigner in Uganda.

Brasilia accedes to the UN's protocol on the abolition of the death penalty (2009/9/29)

On September 25, Brazil became the 72nd state party to the international treaty that abolishes the death penalty without any possibility of reinstating it.

Nicaragua makes abolition irreversible (2009/3/4)

Nicaragua became the 71th state to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant for Civil and Politic Rights on 25 February 2009.

Jamaica vote illustrates retentionist trend in the Caribbean (2009/1/9)

Jamaican lawmakers voted to keep capital punishment and the government seems determined to use it. Caribbean abolitionists are battling similar moves across the region.

Argentina definitively abolishes the death penalty (2008/9/18)

The country has ratified the UN's Second Optional Protocol, which makes it impossible to reinstate the death penalty. The World Coalition is currently campaigning in favour of that international treaty.

Puerto Rican abolitionists gain support from their government (2008/3/5)

The Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the Puerto Rican secretary of justice are joining forces to resist death sentences imposed by US federal courts.

MEPs call on Guatemala not to reinstate capital punishment (2008/2/25)

Members of the European Parliament Hélène Flautre and Raimon Obiols have called on Guatemala to maintain its moratorium on the death penalty after the Central American country passed dangerous legislation.