'Death Penalty Debate Needed': Mexico Calls for Continental Moratorium Proposal The News
go to original March 26, 2014

Mexico and nine other countries belonging to the Organization of American States (OAS) have called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to reopen debate on capital punishment and open up the possibility of establishing a continental moratorium on its use.

Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, along with OAS observer country France, called on the IACHR to address the issue, saying that the hemisphere’s forums for regional cooperation have been reluctant to discuss the death penalty.

The death penalty is prohibited in most countries in the Americas, while Brazil, Chile, Peru and El Salvador allow for capital punishment under certain circumstances. It remains legal but unused in the past 10 years in Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Suriname and Guyana, leaving the United States as the only country that makes widespread use of the controversial punishment.

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