Death Penalty All But Abolished in LatAm as Citizens Face Execution Elsewhere Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original April 30, 2015

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Despite the abolition of the death penalty in Latin America, citizens from the region continue to be executed or face execution in other parts of the world, often unleashing diplomatic tensions.

Most recently, two Brazilians were executed in Indonesia despite intervention by the Brazilian government.

...On April 23 the Federal Court of Malaysia ratified the sentence of capital punishment for three Mexican brothers Luis Alfonso, Simon and Jose Regino Villarreal Gonzalez, arrested in 2008 for drug trafficking.

Their lawyers’ argument that their convictions were legally improper, following allegations that evidence had been manipulated, was dismissed by the court, and the only resort remaining to save the convicts from the gallows is royal pardon.

Most Latin Americans facing death sentences are in the United States, and they are mostly Mexicans, with some Cubans, Salvadorians, Colombians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, a Dominican, a Nicaraguan, a Costa Rican, and an Argentine amongst their number.

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