Mexico
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 · The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1971)...
- News items in the archive
- 139
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Mexico 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 139 news items on Mexico, from 1999 to today.
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- JULY 19, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The European Union, former US president Jimmy Carter...
The European Union, former US president Jimmy Carter and the ex president of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev called on the US Supreme Court to end the death penalty for offenders younger than 18 at the time of their crimes
- JUNE 29, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico's attorney general called for Congress to study...
Mexico's attorney general called for Congress to study reinstituting the death penalty in the country, a day after hundreds of thousands of Mexicans filled the streets of Mexico City to protest a rising tide of kidnappings, theft and corruption
- JUNE 25, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Texas Governor Rick Perry vowed to review the cases...
Texas Governor Rick Perry vowed to review the cases of at least 16 Mexicans on death row in Texas
- JUNE 24, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he opposed the application...
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he opposed the application of the death penalty for kidnappers and claimed his government was decisively combating crime
- MAY 14, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision...
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision by the governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry commuting the death sentence of Mexican citizen Osvaldo Torres who had been scheduled to die next on May 18 for the murders of a man and woman during a burglary
- MAY 6, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International sent letters to the Oklahoma...
Amnesty International sent letters to the Oklahoma Attorney General, Drew Edmonson and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board urging them to demonstrate their respect for justice and human life by recommending clemency for Osvaldo Torres to Governor Henry a
- MAY 2, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that relatives of Osvaldo Torres, a...
It was reported that relatives of Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican awaiting execution in the US state of Oklahoma, would submit 12,500 signatures to the Prison Pardons Board on his behalf to strengthen their plea for a stay of execution
- MAY 2, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that relatives of Osvaldo Torres, a...
It was reported that relatives of Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican awaiting execution in the US state of Oklahoma, would submit 12,500 signatures to the Prison Pardons Board on his behalf to strengthen their plea for a stay of execution
- APRIL 29, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
With Mexican convict Osvaldo Torres set to be put to...
With Mexican convict Osvaldo Torres set to be put to death in the US state of Oklahoma in three weeks, his family and local politicians, buoyed by a ruling from the International Court of Justice, began stepping up activities they hoped would prevent the
- APRIL 21, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution...
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 19, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The US federal government must intervene with the states...
The US federal government must intervene with the states to ensure a review of the cases of foreigners - particularly Mexicans - sitting on death row, The New York Times said in an editorial
- APRIL 16, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico's Senate backed a proposal by President Vicente...
Mexico's Senate backed a proposal by President Vicente Fox to strip the constitution of a provision that allowed military courts to impose the death penalty
- APRIL 14, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour...
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour of denying any extradition request on the part of the United States that did not include a pledge not to sentence the extradited individual to life in prison
- APRIL 11, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1917) at Art. 22 states:
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1917) at Art. 22 states: "The death penalty is prohibited
- APRIL 5, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The ruling by the International Court of Justice that...
The ruling by the International Court of Justice that the United States violated the rights of Mexican inmates on death row should not affect diplomatic relations between the two countries involved, Mexican President Vicente Fox said
- APRIL 5, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The ruling by the International Court of Justice that...
The ruling by the International Court of Justice that the United States violated the rights of Mexican inmates on death row should not affect diplomatic relations between the two countries involved, Mexican President Vicente Fox said
- APRIL 3, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox said the International...
Mexican President Vicente Fox said the International Court of Justice and the United Nations would have to decide what to do if the United States refused comply with a ruling that it review the cases of 51 Mexicans on death row
- APRIL 1, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Around 100 Mexicans on death row in US prisons required...
Around 100 Mexicans on death row in US prisons required immediate consular protection, an ICJ judge said, after the International Court of Justice ordered the United States to "review and reconsider" the cases of 51 Mexicans facing execution
- MARCH 31, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox sent the Senate a bill...
Mexican President Vicente Fox sent the Senate a bill aimed at abolishing the death penalty under military jurisdiction and replacing it with prison terms ranging from 30 to 60 years
- MARCH 31, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico hailed the world court ruling calling for review...
Mexico hailed the world court ruling calling for review of death sentences against 51 Mexicans in US prisons, convicts whose rights the Mexican government says were violated when they were not put in touch with consular officials
- MARCH 3, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was set to complain to US President Bush at...
Mexico was set to complain to US President Bush at talks to be held in Texas about Oklahoma's plans to execute a Mexican convict, Osvaldo Torres, on May 18
- MARCH 3, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was set to complain to US President Bush at...
Mexico was set to complain to US President Bush at talks to be held in Texas about Oklahoma's plans to execute a Mexican convict, Osvaldo Torres, on May 18
- MARCH 2, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Defying an order from the judicial arm of the United...
Defying an order from the judicial arm of the United Nations and the request of its state attorney general, in a 3-2 decision the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals sceduled a May 18 execution date for Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican prisoner sentenced to death
- MARCH 2, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Defying an order from the judicial arm of the United...
Defying an order from the judicial arm of the United Nations and the request of its state attorney general, in a 3-2 decision the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals sceduled a May 18 execution date for Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican prisoner sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
President Vicente Fox proposed writing the death penalty...
President Vicente Fox proposed writing the death penalty out of Mexican law
- DECEMBER 15, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico accused the United States at an International...
Mexico accused the United States at an International Court of Justice hearing on of violating international law over its treatment of more than 50 Mexican nationals on death row
- NOVEMBER 22, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Heron Varela Flores, a Mexican soldier facing the death...
Heron Varela Flores, a Mexican soldier facing the death penalty for killing a superior, rejected a decision by President Vicente Fox to spare his life
- NOVEMBER 21, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Mexican armed forces announced that they were in...
The Mexican armed forces announced that they were in favour of formally ending the use of the death penalty in their country - where no one has been executed since 1942 - and of adjusting military law to modern times
- NOVEMBER 19, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox's office said he would...
Mexican President Vicente Fox's office said he would reject the death penalty handed down by a military court against Heron Varela Flores, a 24-year-old lieutenant found guilty in a court martial of murdering a senior officer
- NOVEMBER 18, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The US Supreme Court declined to review the case of...
The US Supreme Court declined to review the case of Osbaldo Torres, a Mexican national facing execution in the US state of Oklahoma, who claimed he did not get consular assistance as required by international law