A-53: PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

 

(Adopted at Asunción, Paraguay, on June 8, 1990, at the

twentieth regular session of the General Assembly)

 

ENTRY INTO FORCE:            August 28, 1991

DEPOSITORY:                     OAS General Secretariat (Original instrument                                        and ratifications).

TEXT:                               OAS, Treaty Series, Nº 73.

UN REGISTRATION:
 

SIGNATORY COUNTRIES

SIGNATURE

RATIFICATION/
ACCESSION

DEPOSIT

Antigua and Barbuda

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Argentina

12/12/06

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Bahamas

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Barbados

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Belize

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Bolivia

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Brazil1

06/07/94

07/31/96

08/13/96 RA

Canada

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Colombia

 

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Costa Rica

10/28/91

03/30/98

05/26/98 RA

Chile

09/10/01

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Dominica

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Dominican Republic

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Ecuador

08/27/90

02/05/98

04/15/98 RA

El Salvador

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Grenada

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Guatemala

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Guyana

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Haiti

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Honduras

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Jamaica

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Mexico

/  /

06/28/07

08/20/07 AD

Nicaragua

08/30/90

03/24/99

11/09/99 RA

Panama

11/26/90

06/27/91

08/28/91 RA

Paraguay

06/08/99

10/31/00

12/07/00 RA

Peru

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Saint Lucia

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Suriname

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Trinidad and Tobago

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United States

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Uruguay

10/02/90

02/08/94

04/04/94 RA

Venezuela

09/25/90

08/24/92

10/06/93 RA

 

DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWALS

 

REF = REFERENCE                                 INST = TYPE OF INSTRUMENT

D = DECLARATION                                 RA = RATIFICATION

R = RESERVATION                                 AC = RECOGNITION

                                                             AD = ACCESSION

 1.     Brazil

 

In ratifying the Protocol to Abolish the Death Penalty, adopted in Asunción on June 8, 1990, make hereby, in compliance with constitutional requirements, a reservation under the terms of Article 2 of the said Protocol, which guarantees states parties the right to apply the death penalty in wartime in accordance with international law, for extremely serious crimes of a military nature.

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