Report No. 200 (2020) IACHR. Petition No. 13.356 (Estados Unidos de America)

• Case Number: 13.356
• Petition Number: 13.356
• Report Number: 200
• Respondent State: United States
• Case Type: Merits
• Court: Inter-American Comission of Human Rights

REPORT No. 200/20

CASE 13.356

REPORT ON ADMISSIBILITY AND MERITS (PUBLICATION)

N.I.S.S.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Approved electronically by the Commission on A.st 3, 2020

OEA/Ser.L.

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A.st 3, 2020

Original: English

Cite as: IACHR, Report No. 200/20, C. 13.356. Admissibility and Merits (Publication). N..

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I.S.S.. United S.s of America. A.st 3, 2020.

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INDEX

I. SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2

II. POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES .................................................................................................................................. 2

A...P. ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2

B. S. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3

III. ADMISSIBILITY ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

A...C., duplication of procedures and international res judicata ............................................................... 3

B. Exhaustion of domestic remedies and timeliness of the petition ............................................................................ 3

C...C. claim ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4

IV. FINDINGS OF FACT..................................................................................................................................................... 5

A...B. ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

B. Relevant legal framework .......................................................................................................................................................... 6

C. Facts of the case.............................................................................................................................................................................. 6

D...M.S.’s detention, trial and death sentence .......................................................................................................... 7

E. Post-conviction proceedings .................................................................................................................................................... 9

F. H. v. Florida ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10

V. ANALYSIS OF LAW .................................................................................................................................................. 10

A...P. considerations ..................................................................................................................................................... 10

B. Extra-territorial international responsibility ................................................................................................................. 11

C...R. of protection from arbitrary arrest of the American D. ............................................................. 12

1. General considerations rega rding the protection from illegal and arbitrary arrest ..................................... 12

2. A. of the case ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12

D...R. to a fair trial and to due process of law, in relation to the right to life, liberty an d personal

security, and the right of protection from arbitrary arrest of the America n D. ........................... 13

E. Right of protection against cruel, infamous or unusual punishment ................................................................... 15

F. The right to life and the right to protection against cruel, infamous or unusual punishment with

respect to the eventual execution of N.I.S.no Saenz .......................................................................... 15

VI. ACTIONS SUBSEQUENT TO REPORT No. 153/19 ......................................................................................... 15

VII. ACTIONS SUBSEQUENT TO REPORT No. 24/20 ........................................................................................... 16

VIII. FINAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................ 16

XIX. PUBLICATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 18