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.
1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:
(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or
(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.