GENERAL PART

SECTION FOUR. PENALTY AND ITS PURPOSE

CHAPTER 10. NOTION, PURPOSES AND TYPES OF PENALTY

Article 51. Capital Punishment

Capital punishment through firing shall be imposed exclusively for an intentional aggravated killing (Paragraph 2 of Article 97), aggression (Paragraph 2 of Article 151), genocide (Article 153), and terrorism (Paragraph three of Article 155).

Capital punishment may not be imposed on a man aged above sixty, a woman, and a person committed a crime in the age under eighteen years.

(Paragraphs 1 and 2 Ð as amended by the Law of 29.08.2001).

By an act of amnesty, capital punishment was commutated by imprisonment for twenty-five years.

SPECIAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY

CHAPTER 8. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Article 151. Aggression

Planning or preparation of aggressive war or engagement in conspiracy in order to execute the said actions –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to fifteen years.

(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)

The commencement or conduct of aggressive war –
shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen to twenty years, or capital punishment.

(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)

SPECIAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY

CHAPTER 8. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Article 152. Breach of Laws and Customs of War

Breach of laws and customs of war by tormenting, physical destruction of civilian population or prisoners of war, forced relocation of civilian population for forced labor or with other purposes, application of weapons prohibited under international law, purposeless destruction of cities and populated localities, despoilment of property, and giving orders to carry out such actions –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to twenty years.
(As amended by Laws of 29.08.1998 and 29.08.2001.)

SPECIAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY

CHAPTER 8. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Article 153. Genocide

Genocide, that is, intentional creation of such living conditions that lead to physical destruction of a group of individuals, in full or in part, on the basis of its ethnic origin, race, or religion, their physical destruction in full or in part, forced reduction of childbirths, or transfer of children from one of these human groups to another, and giving orders to carry out such acts –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to twenty years, or capital punishment.
(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)