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Capital punishment inColombia was abolished by the 1910 constitution.^[1] In prohibiting the death penalty, theColombian Constitution of 1991 states "The right to life is inviolable. There will be no death penalty."^{[citation needed]}

The last person to be legally executed in Colombia wasManuel Saturio Valencia byfiring squad on 5 May 1907 forarson.^{[citation needed]}

Colombia voted in favor of theUnited Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight consecutive times: in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.^{[citation needed]} Colombia is a state party to theSecond Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Colombia acceded to the treaty on 5 Aug 1997.^[2]

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