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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- APRIL 25, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution...
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- FEBRUARY 4, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban...
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban President Fidel Castro to abolish the death penalty in Cuba
- JANUARY 31, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the...
Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, persuaded a judge to block his extradition to the United States, officials said
- JANUARY 18, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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Mexican and U
- JANUARY 17, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
A Mexican court blocked the extradition of a man wanted...
A Mexican court blocked the extradition of a man wanted in the 1994 murder of an American drug agent because the U
- JANUARY 1, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
- NOVEMBER 27, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government...
Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government acknowledged that at least 74 officials from 37 government agencies were involved in a campaign of disappearances, torture and executions of leftists in the 1970s and 1980s
- OCTOBER 4, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican...
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican citizens will require a guarantee the prisoner will not be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison
- JULY 21, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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Oklahoma Gov
- JULY 20, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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Oklahoma Gov
- APRIL 25, 2001MexicoDEATH 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 approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- JANUARY 1, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
- JANUARY 1, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Early this year, the Mexican Supreme Court has ruled...
Early this year, the Mexican Supreme Court has ruled that its citizens can be extradited for trial abroad, provided they are sentenced under Mexican guidelines, which bans the use of the death penalty
- APRIL 26, 2000MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Mexico cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- JANUARY 1, 2000MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1971)...
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1971) at Art
- NOVEMBER 11, 1999MexicoDEATH PENALTY
On November 11, speaking at the Third Committee of...
On November 11, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), Mexico's representative Luis Alfonso de Alba said all countries needed impartial support to carry out the task of ensuring human rights
- APRIL 28, 1999MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution...
Mexico 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, 1999MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1971)...
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico (1971) at Art
- JANUARY 1, 1999MexicoDEATH PENALTY
During the year, the case of Hernandez Leyva, the biggest...
During the year, the case of Hernandez Leyva, the biggest multiple-murder in recent history, split the residents of a southern Mexico city over the issue of the death penalty