Death sentences and executions during this time are allowed for specific crimes and may only be imposed by military courts during states of war.
Executions are carried out by a firing squad, and the death penalty is still permitted for the same six specific crimes exempted from the Constitution's peacetime abolition.
On August 8, 2006, President Alan García announced that he planned to submit a bill to the Peruvian Congress proposing that the death penalty be restored during peacetime.
The IFHR issued a statement later that month stating that reintroducing the death penalty in Peru would be "a setback for human rights.
The IFHR issued a statement later that month stating that reintroducing the death penalty in Peru would be "a setback for human rights.