Argentina
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Art.18 of the Constitution provides for "the complete...
- News items in the archive
- 36
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Argentina is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 36 news items on Argentina, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JUNE 5, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 26, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Argentina cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Argentina cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 1, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers...
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers are to be tried as accomplices in the 1994 bombing that levelled a Buenos Aires Jewish community centre, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds
- JANUARY 1, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Art.18 of the Constitution provides for "the complete...
Art.18 of the Constitution provides for "the complete abolition of the death penalty for political motives." A constitutional amendment, passed in 1994, recognizes international treaties signed by Argentina as equivalent to constitutional norms
- APRIL 28, 1999ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Argentina was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the...
Argentina was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Art.18 of the Constitution provides for "the complete...
Art.18 of the Constitution provides for "the complete abolition of the death penalty for political motives." A constitutional amendment, passed in 1994, recognizes international treaties signed by Argentina as equivalent to constitutional norms