LatinNews Daily - 25 November 2019

Argentina: On 19 November the US Supreme Court denied review of the much-publicised case of Víctor Saldaño, an Argentine national who has spent the past 23 years on death row in Texas. Saldaño was sentenced in 1996, accused of kidnapping and killing a US national. The decision follows a 13 November hearing by the Organization of American States (OAS) after which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a communiqué urging the US government to comply with its previous recommendations concerning Saldaño’s human rights. In a March 2017 report the IACHR had concluded that the US had violated Saldaño’s rights and that his race and origin had influenced his original trial. The case, which has been closely followed in Argentina, was nullified early on by the US Supreme Court, only for Saldaño to be resentenced shortly after. Since 1998, Saldaño’s lawyer and a lawyer of the Argentine state have been appealing in his case. According to his lawyers, Saldaño could be scheduled for the lethal injection this month.

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