Peru
Practice Relating to Rule 135. Children
Section D. Death penalty on children
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states: “The death penalty for an offence related to the armed conflict may not be pronounced on a person who was under eighteen years of age at the time of the offence.”
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states: “The death penalty for an offence related to the armed conflict may not be pronounced on a person who was under eighteen years of age at the time of the offence”.
In 1993, Peru informed the Committee on the Rights of the Child that “children convicted of committing terrorist activities could not receive life sentences” and that “even if the death penalty were introduced for terrorists, it would not be applied to adolescents under the age of 18 because the Convention [on the Rights of the Child] took precedence over all other legislation”.