President of Alan Garcia announced that he wanted the death penalty...

President of Alan Garcia announced that he wanted the death penalty for those found guilty of terrorism, and referred expressly to the Maoist Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) guerrillas, who are still sporadically active in the jungle valleys of the Ene, Apurimac and Huallaga rivers, in the centre and south of the country. He told the press he would send a draft law to Congress so that anyone who engages in the crime of terrorism would face a firing squad.
The government is basing its call for the death penalty for terrorists on the 1993 Constitution, imposed by Fujimori to legitimise his "self-coup" in April 1992, when he dissolved parliament and suspended fundamental freedoms. The constitutional reform of 1993 provided for capital punishment for terrorism, although it was never applied by the Fujimori regime.