Overview
- Execution Judge Axel López authorized Vázquez’s inclusion in the Article 15 periodo de prueba, a prerequisite for any temporary leave.
- The step lasts one year and evaluates treatment progress, conduct and risk before the court can consider 12–72 hour outings.
- Prosecutors and the prison’s interdisciplinary council opposed the ruling, and the victim’s family said it will file an appeal.
- Penitentiary reports acknowledge therapeutic progress yet state he is not currently in condition to leave custody.
- López had rejected similar requests in 2021, 2023 and 2024, and Vázquez is serving a life sentence for the 2010 femicide of Wanda Taddei that was upheld on appeal.