[passage of the death penalty] Having present that the National Congress has given its approval to the following bill: " Article 1.-Enter the following amendments to the Penal Code: 1. general scale of Article 21, the word "Death" for "Perpetual Presidio qualified". 2. Substitute in Article 27 the sentence "The death penalty, provided that the sentence is not executed, and the sentence". 3. Add the following article 32a: " Article 32a.-The imposition of the qualified perpetual prison matters the deprivation of liberty of the sentenced person for life, under a special regime of compliance that is governed by the following rules: 1. may grant conditional release only after 40 years of effective deprivation of liberty, and in any event shall be subject to compliance with the other rules and requirements governing its granting and revocation; 2. The sentenced person shall not be entitled to be favoured with none of the benefits provided for in the regulation of establishments penitentiary, or any other legal or regulatory body, which amounts to its release, even in a transitional manner. Without prejudice to this, your departure may be authorized, with the necessary security measures, when your spouse or any of your parents or children are at imminent risk of death or have died; 3. No one shall be in favour of the sentenced person laws granting amnesty or general pardons, unless expressly applicable to them. Furthermore, only the special pardon for reasons of State or for the suffering of a serious and irrecoverable state of health, duly accredited, shall be made in respect of the imminent risk of death or physical futility of such magnitude as prevent you from using yourself. In any event, the benefit of the pardon must be granted in accordance with the legal rules governing it. " 4. Replace on the scale number 1 contained in Article 59, the expression "Death" for "Perpetual Presidium Qualified". 5. Delete in the second paragraph of Article 66, the sentence "If in the latter case the maximum degree of the appointees is constituted by the death penalty, the court shall not be obliged to impose it necessarily." 6. Delete in the fourth paragraph of Article 68, the sentence ", unless that penalty is the death penalty, in which case the court shall not necessarily impose it". 7. Delete in the second paragraph of Article 75, the sentence 'If the death penalty is that of death, it may be imposed, instead of that of perpetual imprisonment.'. 8. Amend the second indent of Article 77 in the following sense: (a) The sentence 'or the higher penalty shall be that of death'. (b) Add the following final sentence: "However, in the case of the scale number 1 provided for in Article 59, the term of the term shall be imposed." 9. Articles 82 to 85 shall be repealed. 10. Replace in the second paragraph of Article 91 the initial sentence " Where in the case of this article the new crime shall be punishable by perpetual imprisonment or imprisonment and the offender shall be in compliance with any of these penalties, processed the death penalty, or to be subject to the sentence of imprisonment in solitary confinement for up to one year and incommunicado with persons who are foreign to the penal establishment for up to six years, which may be applied separately or jointly. " the following: " When in the case of this article the new crime should be punished with prison or Perpetual imprisonment and the offender shall be in compliance with any of these penalties, may be imposed on him by a qualified perpetual prison. " 11. Delete in Article 94 the phrase 'death or'. 12. Delete in Article 97 the phrase 'death and that of'. 13. Replace in the first paragraph of Article 106 the phrase "death" by the phrase "the qualified perpetual prison". 14. Replace in the second paragraph of Article 372 bis the term "death" by "a perpetual or qualified prison". 15. In the fifth indent of Article 141, Article 390 and Article 433 (1), replace the term "death" with "a perpetual or qualified prison". Article 2.-Replace the expressions "to death" by "a perpetual or qualified prison", contained in the final sentence of the second indent of Article 5 (a) and in the fourth indent of Article 5 (b) of Law 12.927, on State Security. Article 3.-Enter the following amendments to the Military Code of Justice: 1. Substitute, in Article 351, the phrase "death" by "the qualified perpetual prison". 2. Substitute, in the first paragraph of Article 416, the sentence "to death" for "a perpetual or qualified prison". Article 4.-Enter the following amendments to the Organic Code of Courts: 1. Article 20, the text of which was established by Article 11 of Law No. 19,665, should be introduced. 2. The repeal of Article 73, as provided for in Article 11 of Law No 19,665, shall be governed by the publication of this Law in the Official Journal. 3. Replace the 7th edition of Article 96 by the following, passing the current number 7th to number 8th: " 7th Know and resolve the granting or revocation of probation, in cases where the qualified perpetual prison has been imposed. The resolution, in this case, shall be agreed by the majority of the members in exercise. " 4. In Article 103, delete the expression '73 second indent' and the comma (,) which follows it. Article 5.-Enter the following amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure: 1. First in Article 296 the sentence " or if, by dealing with the process of crime that deserves the death penalty, the judge considers it appropriate to ensure the person on the process. ", replacing the comma (,) which precedes him by a period (.). 2. The second indent of Article 502 shall be assumed. 3. Delete the fourth indent of Article 526. 4. Article 531 should be repealed. 5. Delete the third indent of Article 532. Article 6.-Enter the following amendments to Decree Law No. 321 of 12 March 1925: 1. Add the following point first to Article 3, changing the location of the other incisees to the same extent: "Those sentenced to perpetual imprisonment can only be granted parole once they are forty years of age." deprivation of effective freedom. Where the application is rejected, it shall not be deducted again after two years after its last submission. ' 2. 2. Add the following second and third points to Article 5: " In any case, the person concerned shall be sentenced to The president of the Supreme Court, who has been in prison for the first time, will have to be granted a sentence or be revoked by the Supreme Court, after the procedures provided for in the previous article have been completed. The decision granting, rejecting or revoking the probation in the case set out in the preceding paragraph shall be communicated to the Ministry of Justice in order to comply with the provisions laid down in Articles 6 and 7 of the present decree law and in the respective regulation. ' Having complied with the provisions of Article 82 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of Mexico, and because I have had to approve and sanction it, I therefore promulgate and take effect as the Law of Santiago, 28 May 2001.-RICARDO LAGOS ESCOBAR, President of the Republic.-José Antonio Gómez Urrutia, Minister of Justice.-Mario Fernández Baeza, Minister of National Defense. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Salutes intently to Ud., Jaime Arellano Quintana, Assistant Secretary of Justice. Constitutional Court Draft Law Repealing the Death Penalty The Secretary of the Constitutional Court, who subscribes, certifies that the Honorable Senate sent the bill enunciated in the rubric, approved by the National Congress, in order to that this Court exercised the control of constitutionality in respect of Articles 4 and 6, Nº2, of the same, and by judgment of May 9, 2001, declared them constitutional. Santiago, May 9, 2001.-Rafael Larraín Cruz, Secretary.