Belize
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
- News items in the archive
- 41
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Belize is classified as Abolitionist de facto 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 41 news items on Belize, from 1999 to today.
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- MAY 28, 2002BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Eleven Caribbean countries were cited in the latest...
Eleven Caribbean countries were cited in the latest Amnesty International report on international human rights violations
- MARCH 11, 2002BelizeDEATH PENALTY
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC)...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) delivered judgments in the appeals of Peter Hughes (St Lucia), Berthill Fox (St Kitts and Nevis) and Patrick Reyes (Belize)
- JANUARY 31, 2002BelizeDEATH PENALTY
The Caribbean may be coming one step closer to finally...
The Caribbean may be coming one step closer to finally ridding itself of the scourge of the death penalty, Amnesty International said at the conclusion of hearings by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Privy Council) which will determine whether
- JANUARY 1, 2002BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
Murder and military offenses are capital crimes
- NOVEMBER 6, 2001BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Three men were condemned to death for murder
Three men were condemned to death for murder
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001BelizeDEATH PENALTY
Belize signed an agreement during the opening of the...
Belize signed an agreement during the opening of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) leaders' 12th inter-sessional summit to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)
- 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