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What to Know: Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty
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Death Penalty Information Center
Since 1973 , at least seven foreign nationals sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated, including Vicente Benavides Figueroa (Mexico, California, 2018 ) and Clemente Aguirre Jarquin (Honduras, Florida, 2018 ).
with the consular notification requirements of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, out of more than 160 reported death sentences imposed on foreign nationals.
Mexico’s Capital Legal Assistance Program, created in 2000 , funds experienced capital defense to represent Mexican nationals in the U.S.A large majority of death-sentenced foreign nationals were lawfully present in the United States.
A 2020 DPI analysis also found that foreign nationals with intellectual disability are disproportionately likely to be sentenced to death.
In a 2019 report, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions concluded consular access for foreign nationals facing the death penalty is a human right.