Chapter 4 Punishment

Section 1 General Provisions

Article 37

(1) Punishments shall be:

1) (New, SG No. 50/1995) life imprisonment;

Special Part

Chapter 1 Crimes Against the Republic

Section 4 Other Crimes

Article 108a

(1) (Amended, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011, supplemented, SG No. 74/2015) Anyone who commits a crime under Articles 115, 128, 142, 143, 143a, 216(1) and (5), 319b - 319d, 326, 330, 333, 334, 337, 339, 340, 341a, 341b, 344, 347(1), 348, 349, 350, 352(1), (2) and (3), 354, 356f or 356h for the purpose of causing disturbance/fear among the population or threatening/forcing a competent authority, a member of the public or a representative of a foreign state or international organization to perform or omit part of his/her duties, shall be punishable for terrorism by imprisonment from five to fifteen years; and where death has been caused, the punishment shall be imprisonment from fifteen to thirty years, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without a chance of commuting.

Chapter 13 Crimes Against Peace and Humanity

Section 3 Liquidation of Groups of the Population (Genocide) and Apartheid

Article 417

A person who with the aim of establishing or maintaining domination or systematic oppression of one racial group of people over another racial group of people:

a) causes death or severe bodily injury to one or more persons of such a group of people, or
b) imposes living conditions of such a nature as to cause complete or partial physical liquidation of a racial group of people,
(Amended, SG No. 153/1998) shall be punished for apartheid by imprisonment for a term of from ten up to twenty years or by life imprisonment without a chance of commuting.