48 123. In cases of extrajudicial killings it is essential that the States effectively investigate the deprivation of the right to life, and in its case, punish all those responsible, especially when state agents are involved, since on the contrary, it would be creating, within an environment of impunity, the conditions necessary for the repetition of this type of facts, which is contrary to the duty to respect and guarantee the right to life.84 Besides, if the acts that violate human rights are not investigated seriously, they would, in some way, result aided by public power, which compromises the State’s international responsibility.85 124. To determine if the obligation to protect the rights to life, humane treatment and personal liberties through a serious investigation of what has occurred, has been fully complied with, the procedures opened at an internal level destined to identifying those responsible for the facts of the case must be examined. This exam shall be made in the light of that stated in Article 25 of the American Convention and of the requirements imposed by Article 8 of the same for all proceedings, and it will be carried out in Chapter IX of the present Judgment. * * * 125. The previous considerations lead the Court to conclude that, for having failed in its duties of respect, prevention, and protection of the rights to life, a humane treatment, and personal liberties as a consequence of the illegal and arbitrary arrest, torture, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the death of the victims, the State is internationally responsible for the violation of Articles 7(1), 7(2), 7(3), 7(4) and 7(5), 5(1) and 5(2), and 4(1) of the American Convention in relation to Article 1(1) of said treaty, in detriment of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez, as well as for the violation of Article 5(5) of the Convention in connection with Article 19 of that instrument, both in relation to Article 1(1) of the same treaty, in detriment of Marco Antonio Servellón García and Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez. * * * 126. The Tribunal goes on to analyze that argued by the Commission and the representatives regarding the violation of Article 5(1) and 5(2) of the American Convention, in detriment of the victims, due to the alleged anguish and suffering experimented as a consequence of the illegal arrest, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez, as well as for the circumstances surrounding their murder, and for the treatment given to their bodies, since they were found with marks of violence and abandoned outdoors in different parts of the city of Tegucigalpa, which would have constituted for their next of kin a cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Added to that, the frustration and helplessness 84 Cfr. Case of Baldeón García, supra note 3, para. 91; Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre, supra note 7, para. 143; and Case of Myrna Mack Chang, supra note 9, para. 156. 85 Cfr. Case of Baldeón García, supra note 3, para. 91; Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre, supra note 7, para. 145; Case of the “Mapiripán Massacre”, supra note 9, paras. 137 and 232.