TITLE ii - Fundamental Rights and Guarantees

CHAPTER i - individual and Collective Rights and Duties

Article 5. All persons are equal before the law, without any distinction whatsoever, Brazilians and foreigners residing in the country being ensured of inviolability of the right to life, to liberty, to equality, to security and to property, on the following terms:

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XLvii – there shall be no punishment:
a) of death, save in case of declared war, under the terms of article 84, XiX;
b) of life imprisonment;