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
- MARCH 4, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights...
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights announced that the Guatemalan Consul in Belize had taken steps to allow 61 Guatemalan prisoners, some of whom on death row, held in the Central de Hatyville prison in Belize to be deported back to Guat
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Three former Guatemalan paramilitary men on massacre...
Three former Guatemalan paramilitary men on massacre charges had their death penalty commuted to 50 years imprisonment for lack of direct evidence