Kyrgyzstan

Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic

GENERAL PART

SECTION III. SENTENCE

CHAPTER 9. SENTENCE NOTION AND PURPOSE. TYPES OF SENTENCE

Article 50. Imprisonment for life

(1) Imprisonment for life consists in the isolation of a convicted person from society by placing him in a reformatory colony of special regime and shall be imposed for particularly serious crimes committed against the life, honor and dignity of a person, or actions aimed at extermination, wholly or in part, of national, ethnic and religious groups.

(2) Imprisonment for life shall not be imposed on :

- women ;
- persons committing crimes while they are under eighteen years of age ;
- men aged sixty or over at the moment of commission of crime.

(3) Imprisonment for life may be replaced with imprisonment for a term of thirty years as a result of pardon.

Keywords

National penalties - life imprisonment



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