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The Death Penalty in the Inter-American Human Rights System: From Restrictions to Abolition

By Organization of American States / Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on 1 January 2012


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The report takes into account the standards developed within the Inter-American human rights system to restrict the application of the death penalty over the last 15 year.




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