El Salvador
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983)...
- News items in the archive
- 33
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
El Salvador is classified as Abolitionist for ordinary crimes 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 33 news items on El Salvador, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MARCH 23, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national...
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
In February, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle quietly...
In February, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle quietly approached Guatemalan leaders, seeking clemency for two Salvadoran men, Dimas Samayoa Garcia and Lucas Revolorio Samayoa, who were arrested in Adelanto, Guatemala, on February 5, and convicted on Febr
- JANUARY 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983)...
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983) at Art