Belize
2026
STATUSAbolitionist de facto
EXECUTIONS 20260
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- September 21, 1981
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and House of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, the President is appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister
RELIGIONS
49.6% Catholics, 27% Protestants, 14% other, 9.4% none
From the country
- JANUARY 1, 2001BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2000BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 2, 1999BelizeDEATH PENALTY
On December 2, Alan Cal, 20, and Estevan Sho, 21, were...
On December 2, Alan Cal, 20, and Estevan Sho, 21, were sentenced to death by a jury at the Dangriga Supreme Court after a two-week trial for the murder of Anna Lightfoot, a 27-year-old British aid worker stabbed in the jungle in August 1998
- NOVEMBER 11, 1999BelizeDEATH PENALTY
On November 11, at the Third Committee of the General...
On November 11, at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), the Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda Patrick A
- JANUARY 1, 1999BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes