The Court of Appeal of Punta Arenas ordered the payment of a million-dollar Montepio pension to a woman convicted of having her husband killed, a retired Army non-commissioned officer, in a case that has generated debate over a legal vacuum in Chilean law. The woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime of parricide, after it was established in 2012 that she hired hitmen to murder her spouse. Despite this, the court determined that s…
The Court of Appeal of Punta Arenas ordered the payment of a million-dollar Montepio pension to a woman convicted of having her husband killed, a retired Army non-commissioned officer, in a case that has generated debate over a legal vacuum in Chilean law. The woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime of parricide, after it was established in 2012 that she hired hitmen to murder her spouse. Despite this, the court determined that s…