Abstract
The article presents an interpretation of murder in Chilean law. It proceeds by identifying the institutional purpose of murder as a rule to distinguish homicides in which capital punishment (or life imprisonment) is applicable from those that it is not, as well as different comparative structural models in the fulfillment of this goal. The article shows that Chilean law follows the dominating comparative trend in establishing a mixed model, which recognizes both a general (premeditation) and special criteria to distinguish between both kinds of homicides (capital and non capital homicides). As the general criterion is only well understood if premeditated homicide is not constructed as special homicide but rather manslaughter is seen as a privileged intentional homicide, the article departs from the traditional systematic interpretation of murder in Chile.
| Translated title of the contribution | The system for determining the penalty for homicide in Chilean law |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 721-765 |
| Number of pages | 45 |
| Journal | Politica Criminal |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |