The death penalty for ordinary crimes was abolished in 2001.

The death penalty for ordinary crimes was abolished in 2001. Both houses of Parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove the death penalty and replace it with a maximum sentence of life in prison, and, on May 28, 2001, the President signed the bill into law.
Chile's military courts retained the death penalty but it can only be applied in times of war.
Chilean Justice Minister Juan Antonio Gomez said the move simply brought legislation into line with judicial practice in Chile, since judges had seldom applied the death penalty. 
The death penalty was first used in Chile in 1890. The last time the sentence was carried out was in 1985, when two former police officers were shot for the serial killings of several couples in the beach resort of Vina del Mar. The last death sentence in Chile was passed in July 1999. In recent years all death sentences had been commuted to life imprisonment.