Tajikistan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (Excerpt)

GENERAL PART

SECTION III. Sentence

CHAPTER 9. Concept, Purposes and Types of Sentences

Article 59. Capital Punishment

(1) Capital punishment (by shooting) is imposed for aggressive war (Article 395, p. II), genocide (Article 398), biocide (Article 399), homicide (Article 104, p. II), rape (Article 138, p. III), terrorism ( Article 179, p. IV), illegal trafficking of narcotics (Article 200, p. III), illegal cultivation of plants containing narcotic substances (Article 204), forcible seizure of power or forcible keeping of power (Article 306), encroachment on life of a statesman of the Republic Tajikistan (Article 310), intentional violation of norms of the international humanitarian law committed in the course of an armed conflict (Article 403, p.II).

(2) Minors under the age of 18 and women who have committed crimes are not subject to capital punishment.

(3) In case of a pardon death penalty may be changed to deprivation of freedom for a period of 25 years.

Keywords

National penalties - death sentence



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