La necesidad de la pena como criterio determinante en la procedencia de la regla del artículo 103 del Código Penal en ilícitos de lesa humanidad: Comentario a la sentencia 34.447-2016 de la Corte Suprema

Abstract

In the Supreme Court an intense debate exists on the proceeds of the rule of the article 103 of the Penal Code in the crimes against humanity because of the prohibition that the Humanitarian International Criminal Law establishes for the full prescription of those crimes. The resolution of the controversy has happened for determining if the foundations of the prescription, specially of «need of sentence», are diverse or analogous to those of the so-called «half prescription».