'National penalties - life imprisonment' in document 'Philippines - Revised Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Title Three
Penalties

Chapter Three
DURATION AND Effect of Penalties

SECTION ONE
Duration of Penalties

ARTICLE 27. Reclusión Perpetua.
— Any person sentenced to any of the perpetual penalties shall be pardoned after undergoing the penalty for thirty years, unless such person by reason of his conduct or some other serious cause shall be considered by the Chief Executive as unworthy of pardon.

Title Three
Penalties

Chapter Three
DURATION AND Effect of Penalties

SECTION THREE
Penalties in which other accessory penalties are inherent

ARTICLE 41. Reclusión perpetua and Reclusión Temporal — Their accessory penalties.
— The penalties of reclusión perpetua and reclusión temporal shall carry with them that of civil interdiction for life or during the period of the sentence as the case may be, and that of perpetual absolute disqualification which the offender shall suffer even though pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.