Authority: American Commission on Human rights

Date: 05/10/2019

Subject: The decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, found the State responsible for the violation of the right to life regarding Manuel Martínez Coronado, sentenced to death, applying the criteria of the “particular hazard”, according to article 132, paragraph 2, of the Criminal Code (paragraph considered then in contrast with the Convention by the Inter-American Court in the case Fermín Ramírez vs Guatemala and subsequently repealed by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala), and of the right to an effective remedy

Parties: Martínez Coronado vs. Guatemala

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal - Art. 48 Rights of defence

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