Related Rule
Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 135. Children
Section D. Death penalty on children
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides: “In any case, the death penalty may not be pronounced against a protected person who was under the age of 18 at the time of the offence.”
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 5.028(1).
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides, with respect to non-international armed conflicts in particular: “The death penalty shall not be pronounced against a person who is under the age of 18.”
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 7.10; see also §§ 3.28 and 5.11.
