Lithuania

Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania

GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER VII
PENALTY

Article 51. Life Imprisonment

1. The penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed by a court in the cases provided for in the Special Part of this Code.

2. If a criminal law provides for a possibility of commutation of the penalty of life imprisonment, the custodial sentence may be commuted to a term of not less than 25 years.

3. Convicted persons shall serve the penalty of life imprisonment in a prison. Having served the first ten years of the sentence of life imprisonment, convicted persons may, in the cases and in accordance with the procedure laid down by laws, be transferred to a house of correction. The procedure for and conditions of serving the penalty of life imprisonment shall be laid down by the Penal Code.

Keywords

National penalties - life imprisonment



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