La pena de muerte en la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos y en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana
Septiembre - Diciembre 2005
Nueva Serie Año XXXVIIIISSN 0041 8633
LA PENA DE MUERTE EN LA CONVENCIÓN AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EN LA JURISPRUDENCIA DE LA CORTE INTERAMERICANA*
Sergio GARCÍA RAMÍREZ**
In the present article the author, through the examination of the American Convention on Human Rights, case law of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and other international conventions, discusses the most important decisions and criteria produced by said Court concerning the death penalty. The study of said materials allows the identification of the reach and applicability of new consulting opinions of the Court which are against the death penalty. As shown in the essay, in some cases it has been possible to see some progress not so much in the form of the abolition of this kind of penalty, but in the form of a more modest step, which is the limitation of the death penalty to cases of intentional homicide.
Descriptors: criminal law, penalties, case law, international justice.
* La presentación inicial de este tema, en una versión más reducida, fue hecha por el autor en la conferencia principal del Seminario "The Death Penalty and Mexico-U.S. Relations. Historical Continuities and Present Dilemas", University of Texas at Austin, el 14 de mayo del 2004.
** Investigador en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Presidente de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.
* Nota: Debido que la traducción es automática podrá ser inexacta o contener errores.
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