Norma relacionada
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, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 32.o.
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”.
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 33(n), p. 252.
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”.
Peru, Statement before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, UN Doc. CRC/C/SR.84, 30 September 1993, §§ 25 and 39.
