1979: Julio Vargas Garayar, the last executed in Peru
Add comment January 20th, 2015 Headsman
This date in 1979 saw the last use of capital punishment in Peru. An Air Force sergeant named Julio Vargas Garayar was shot for selling classified information under the military junta of Francisco Morales Bermudez.
Peru abolished the death penalty later that same year as part of its uneasy transition to civilian rule: the country’s 1979 constitution restricted the death penalty to state offenses during wartime: treason, genocide, crimes against humanity, terrorism, war crimes, and murder.
Although Peru in subsequent years has had its share of conflict and extrajudicial executions, it has never since conducted an official execution — notwithstanding Alan Garcia‘s mid-2000s rumblings about amending the constitution to reintroduce the death penalty for child rape.
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Espionage,Execution,History,Milestones,Peru,Shot,Soldiers,Spies
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