Capital punishment in Colombia

File:Una ejecución en Medellín.jpg, before the abolition of capital punishment in Colombia. ({{Circa}} 1906) ]]

Capital punishment in Colombia was abolished by the 1910 constitution.{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/6665/2017/en/|title=Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)|date=23 October 2018 |publisher=Amnesty International|accessdate=July 23, 2022}} In prohibiting the death penalty, the Colombian Constitution of 1991 states "The right to life is inviolable. There will be no death penalty." {{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

The last person to be legally executed in Colombia was Manuel Saturio Valencia by firing squad on 5 May 1907 for arson.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Internationally

Colombia voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight consecutive times: in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} Colombia is a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Colombia acceded to the treaty on 5 Aug 1997.{{cite web|url=https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-12&chapter=4|title=12. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty|publisher=United Nations Treaty Collection|accessdate=July 23, 2022}}

References

Colombia

Category:Law of Colombia