The death penalty was abolished on May 28, 2001

The death penalty was abolished on May 28, 2001. 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 have been commuted to life imprisonment.