 As of April 2017, five executions had been carried out since 1983; all were broadcast live on television.The last executions took place on June 29, 2000, when kidnappers and murderers Amilcar Cetino Perez and Tomas Cerrate Hernandez were executed by lethal injection on live television.From 2005–2012, the sentences of all 54 inmates condemned to death were commuted to life in prison.