Colombia
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 · Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
- News items in the archive
- 50
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Colombia 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 50 news items on Colombia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2002ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
- APRIL 25, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the...
Colombia was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- JANUARY 16, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members...
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members stopped a bus in western Colombia and executed 10 passengers
- JANUARY 16, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members...
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members stopped a bus in western Colombia and executed 10 passengers
- JANUARY 1, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 1, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
- JANUARY 1, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
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- DECEMBER 21, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Witnesses said to have seen members of a right-wing...
Witnesses said to have seen members of a right-wing paramilitary squad to kill 10 people
- AUGUST 27, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
40 peasants were killed in murders attributed to the...
40 peasants were killed in murders attributed to the AUC (United Self-defence Groups of Colombia)
- AUGUST 26, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
According to a poll published by the Financial Institutions...
According to a poll published by the Financial Institutions National Associations (ANIF) most Colombians support the death penalty for kidnappers with 73% of those questioned being in favour and 23% being against
- MAY 12, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
The Colombian United Self-Defence Groups (AUC) assumed...
The Colombian United Self-Defence Groups (AUC) assumed responsibility for the massacre that occurred early on May 11 in the corregimiento of Zabaletas and other villages in the municipality of Buenaventura, in which 12 people were murdered, including two
- APRIL 26, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Colombia cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 6, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents...
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents of a small town near the Venezuelan border
- MARCH 17, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings...
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings have displaced drug trafficking [as the main crime in Colombia] and he proposed the reconsideration of the adoption of life imprisonment and even the death penalty to punish this crime
- MARCH 2, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county,...
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county, paramilitaries massacred eight people
- JANUARY 28, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Right-wing death squads killed at least 11 people in...
Right-wing death squads killed at least 11 people in Santa Cecilia in northern Colombia
- JANUARY 1, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
- NOVEMBER 3, 1999ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
On November 3, Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, speaking...
On November 3, Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said it is certainly a prerogative of each country to decide on whether to maintain the death penalty or
- APRIL 28, 1999ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the...
Colombia 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, 1999ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910
Colombia abolished the death penalty in 1910