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

ADOPTED AT: ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
DATE: 06/08/90
CONF/ASSEM/MEETING: TWENTIETH REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                            ,
ENTRY INTO FORCE:   /  /     THIS PROTOCOL SHALL ENTER INTO FORCE AMONG THE
STATES THAT RATIFY OR ACCEDE TO IT WHEN THEY DEPOSIT THEIR 

RESPECTIVE INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION OR ACCESSION (ARTICLE 4)

DEPOSITORY: OAS GENERAL SECRETARIAT (ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT AND RATIFICATIONS)

TEXT: OAS, TREATY SERIES, No. 73                                  

UN REGISTRATION:   /  /    No.         Vol.       

OBSERVATIONS:

GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE TREATY: A-53

*DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWLS

A-53 PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN  RIGHTS 
TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY 

STATEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS                                                   
                                                                              
                                                                              
1.   Brazil:                                                                  
                                                                              
     "In ratifying the Protocol to Abolish the Death Penalty,                 
adopted in Asunción on June 8, 1990, I 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.”

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