Guatemala: Medical action: Execution by lethal injection
Guatemala: Medical action: Execution by lethal injection
Index Number: AMR 34/033/1997Date Published: 4 September 1997
Categories: Americas, Guatemala
The Guatemalan government has legislated to permit execution by lethal injection. Several men under sentence of death have now exhausted their appeals and the first of such execution appears imminent. It is unclear who will carry out the execution with press reports speaking both of a "medical team" and of "paramedics".
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