Chile in course to abolitionism. The next step

Abstract

In the year 2001, the Republic of Chile abolished the death penalty of the systems of ordinary penalties by Law n.19.734, the past month of April after serving 13 years of this important date for the Chilean society and for the international community as a whole given that seven years later its commitment to international law and abolitionism was accentuated with the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol of 1989 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and at the regional level, of the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to the abolition of the death penalty of 1990, converting this form into the country number one hundred and eight that did it.