Lanza died in September 2016, after 10 days in hospital in Tegucigalpa; however, her health had badly deteriorated since her 2015 sentencing. After her death the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders  (IM-Defensoras) published a statement accusing the Honduran government of causing Lanza's death by continuing its "cruel and inhuman treatment to the extent of propitiating her death, by unnecessarily sustaining and prolonging an absurd, groundless court case aimed at inhibiting her right and the right of all Honduran women to defend their rights". This was coupled with calls for the pardoning of the charges that she had been imprisoned for by national and international organisations.
