1 General Part

CHAPTER V- PUNISHMENTS/SENTENCES

Article 29- Principal punishments

The following punishments shall apply to the offenders:

1. Life imprisonment;

2. Imprisonment;

3. Fine.

1 General Part

CHAPTER V- PUNISHMENTS/SENTENCES

Article 31- Life imprisonment

The court decides for life imprisonment when a serious offence has been committed.

Life imprisonment is not applied to persons who, at the time when the offence is committed, were younger than eighteen years old or, are women.

Life imprisonment is jointly provided for at the Special Part of this Code.

1 General Part

CHAPTER VII- ALTERNATIVES TO IMPRISONMENT SENTENCE

Article 65

A convicted serving life imprisonment is deprived of the right to early release on parole.

Only in extraordinary circumstances may the convicted serving life imprisonment be released on parole, when:

He has served no less than twenty-five years of imprisonment and, during the period serving his sentence, has had excellent behavior and it is deemed that the educational aim has been achieved

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY


Article 73- Genocide


is sentenced with no less than ten years of imprisonment, or with life imprisonment.

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Article 74- Crimes against humanity

Murders, massacres, slavery, internal exile and deportation, as well as every act of torture or other inhuman violence committed according to a concrete pre-meditated plan against a group of civil population, for political, ideological, racial, ethnic, and religious reasons, is punished by not less than fifteen years of imprisonment or with life imprisonment.

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER I-CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Article 75- War Crimes

Acts committed by different people in war time... are sentenced with no less than fifteen years of imprisonment, or life imprisonment.