Guatemala
2026
STATUSAbolitionist for ordinary crimes
EXECUTIONS 20260
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- January 14, 1986, suspended in 1993, reintroduced and amended in November 2003
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil rights; judicial review of legislative acts
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la República)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Court
RELIGIONS
Catholics, Protestants, indigenous Maya beliefs
From the country
- NOVEMBER 14, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Guatemala sentenced Santos Hernandez to...
A court in Guatemala sentenced Santos Hernandez to death by lethal injection for killing five native family members in Chiquimula
- MAY 16, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Economist reported that according to an American...
The Economist reported that according to an American report of January 2003, Guatemalan police "stole twice the quantity of drugs that they officially seized and
- APRIL 24, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death...
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- MARCH 21, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Mutual Support Group (GAM), a Guatemalan human rights...
Mutual Support Group (GAM), a Guatemalan human rights group, said death-squad agents linked to the state committed nine summary executions in the first two months of the year