Capital punishment in

Aruba Aruba ( , , ), officially the Country of Aruba ( nl, Land Aruba; pap, Pais Aruba) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about north of the Venezuela peninsula of ...

has been prohibited by Article I.4 of the

Constitution of Aruba Aruba's Constitution (''dutch: staatsregeling'') was unanimously approved by all political parties represented in Aruba's Parliament on a January 1, 1986, and was proclaimed in the ''Afkondigingsblad van Aruba'', No.26, 1985, on January 1, 1986. ...

since 1 January 1986, the day Aruba became a constituent country of the

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in its own right. The inclusion of a capital punishment prohibition in the constitution had followed the example provided by the 1983 constitution of the Netherlands, but rather than putting it in the judiciary section like the example, it was put in the basic rights, following the related Article I.3 about the inviolability of the body, to ensure that the prohibition would not be perceived as exclusively applying to judges.Staatsregeling van Aruba. Artikel I.4 available at Wikisource

References

Law of Aruba

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