The death penalty in Latin America. Abolitionism in the Codes, extrajudicial executions and something else

Abstract

The article deals with an examination of Ibero-American criminal legislation on the death penalty and highlights the clearly majority position of abolitionism, reinforced by the American Convention on Human Rights and the Asunción Protocol on the death penalty. Along with this analysis of the situation in the different countries, in the second part an approach is made to the examination of executions without sentence, with two sections, the first on lynchings and the second on executions from power, which, Using the case of the Araguaia Guerrilla, it leads to pronounce on transitional justice.