Uzbekistan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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.

Keywords

National penalties - death sentence



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