Chile
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Penal Code envisages the death penalty for murder...
- News items in the archive
- 38
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Chile is classified as Abolitionist for ordinary crimes in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 38 news items on Chile, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 25, 2001ChileDEATH PENALTY
Chile was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Chile was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- NOVEMBER 6, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
The Chilean senate voted to end the death penalty and...
The Chilean senate voted to end the death penalty and increase the number of years that must be served under a life sentence
- JULY 21, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
Catholic Bishops stated their support in efforts to...
Catholic Bishops stated their support in efforts to abolish the death penalty from Chilean law
- MAY 23, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
After a group calling itself the Group of Families...
After a group calling itself the Group of Families of Raped and Murdered Children rejected a government proposal to eliminate the death penalty, President Ricardo Lagos said he favoured holding a national referendum to decide whether or not the death pena
- APRIL 26, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
Chile cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Chile cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- JANUARY 1, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code envisages the death penalty for murder...
The Penal Code envisages the death penalty for murder of relatives; kidnapping and child abuse; kidnapping of adults provoking death; murder of police
- APRIL 28, 1999ChileDEATH PENALTY
Chile was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution...
Chile was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChileDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code envisages the death penalty for murder...
The Penal Code envisages the death penalty for murder of relatives; kidnapping and child abuse; kidnapping of adults provoking death; murder of police