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Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty

Signatures and current status of Ratifications of the 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

06/18/08

09/05/09 RA

Bahamas

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Barbados

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Belize

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Bolivia

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/  /

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Brazil1

06/07/94

07/31/96

08/13/96 RA

Canada

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/  /

/  /

Chile2

09/10/01

08/04/08

10/16/08 RA

Colombia

 

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Costa Rica

10/28/91

03/30/98

05/26/98 RA

Dominica

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/  /

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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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/  /

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Grenada

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/  /

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Guatemala

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/  /

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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

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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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St. Kitts and Nevis

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St. Lucia

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St. 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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/  /

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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. 

2.       Chile: 

The State of Chile makes the reservation authorized under Article 2.1 of the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty and may, therefore, apply the death penalty in wartime in accordance with international law, for extremely serious crimes of a military nature.