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130. The Court considers that it cannot convict to payment of compensation for the
pecuniary damages alleged, since there is not evidence to prove them. In what
refers to non-pecuniary damages, the Court considers that this judgment constitutes,
per se, a form of reparation, pursuant to international jurisprudence.109. It also
orders the following measures:
a) that the State hold, within a reasonable period of time, a new trial against Mr.
Fermín Ramírez, satisfying the demands of the due process of law, with all
the guarantees of hearings and defense for the accused. If he is charged with
the crime of murder, classification that was in force when the facts that he
was charged with occurred, the current criminal legislation must be applied
with the exclusion of the reference to dangerousness, in the terms of the
following paragraph;
b) the regulation of murder as stated in the second paragraph of Article 132 of
the Criminal Code of Guatemala violates the American Convention (supra
paras. 90 through 98). Therefore, the State must abstain from applying the
part of Article 132 of the Criminal Code of Guatemala that refers to the
dangerousness of the agent and modify it within a reasonable period of time,
adjusting it to the American Convention, pursuant to the established in Article
2 of the same, thus guaranteeing the respect for the freedom from ex post
facto laws, enshrined in Article 9 of the same international instrument. The
reference to the dangerousness of the agent included in this stipulation must
be eliminated;
c) based on equitable considerations, as has been stated by this Court in other
cases,110 the State must abstain from executing Mr. Fermín Ramírez,
whichever the result of the trial referred to in subparagraph a) of the present
paragraph;
d) the State must adopt, within a reasonable period of time, the legislative and
administrative measures necessary to establish a procedure that guarantees
that every person sentenced to death has the right to request pardon or
commutation of the sentence, pursuant to a regulation that determines the
authority with the power to grant it, the events in which it proceeds and the
corresponding procedure; in these cases the sentence must not be executed
while the decision regarding the pardon or commutation of the sentence
requested is pending;
e) the State must provide Mr. Fermín Ramírez, prior manifestation of his consent
for these effects, as of the notification of the present Judgment and for the
time necessary, without any cost and through the national health services,
with an adequate treatment, including the supply of medications; and
f) it is appropriate to order, as has been stated by the Court in other cases111
and as a guarantee of non-repetition, that the State adopt, within a
109
Cfr. Case of Caesar, supra note 3, para. 126; Case of Huilca Tecse, supra note 102, para. 97;
and Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters, supra note 3, para. 157.
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111
Cfr. Case of Hilaire, Constantine and Benjamin et al., supra note 86, para. 215.
Cfr. Case of Caesar, supra note 3, para. 134; and Case of Hilaire, Constantine and Benjamin et
al., supra note 86, para. 217.
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