The President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, called on Jews in Congress to reactivate the death penalty in order to fight crime through the assessment of a minor person that the case is unapproachable by constitutional sentence.
“It is up to the Congress of the Republic that we do not have the means to bring criminals down. If there is a need for the death penalty that ha hagan“, afirmó Giammattei a periodistas dura un gira por el Caribe (noreste) del país.
“The criminals against the niece deberían are paid with the life of the criminal”, asseguró el mandatario derechista.
Sharon Figueroa’s bodyguards, eight years old, were kidnapped by police in the northern town of Melchor de Mencos, fronted by Belice, one day after his disappearance, summoned to a case of violence against women and provocative messages to apply the pena capital.
Sondeverbod, Jordanian Prosecutor Jordan Rodas, told AFP that Giammattei’s petition was a “populist” reaction to the Constitutional Court (CC), the maximum judicial body in the country, which declared the penal of death in Guatemala.
Between 2016 and 2017, the CC excludes the death penalty for cases of probation, parole, extrajudicial eviction, sequestration, forced divorce and extortion.
The Corte argues that the imposition of the death penalty, which has ultimately been applied for more than a dozen decades by means of lethal injection, violates principles agreed upon in the Constitution and international treaties, and in particular the American Convention on Human Rights José).
“It’s a populist response to a serious problem of violence that cannot be resolved with this type of media [pena de muerte]”, valoró Rodas, urging the mandate to attack the” fund problems “to eradicate violence.
Together with the exclusion of the Criminal Code, the death penalty was also imposed from the year 2000 onwards a legal vacancy involving the President, Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004), the motion in Congress to derogate from the power to hold the mandate to grant an indictment a los condenados.
El Legislativo, probe ban, does not determine to whom the correspondent is the ultimate remedy when it comes to the sentient beings.
In another, deputies derechistas desempolvaron a project to restore the presidential indulgence to be able to apply the pen another time.