Chapter 2 Fundamental Rights and Duties of Citizens
Article 31
(7. ) There shall be no limitation to the prosecution and the execution of a sentence for crimes against peace and humanity.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 23
(1) If by one act several crimes have been committed, or if a person has committed several separate crimes before the issue of sentence that has entered into force for any of them, the court shall, after determining punishments for each crime separately, impose the most severe thereof.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002 - effective 1.01.2005 with respect to the punishment of probation - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004) Imposed punishments such as public censure and deprivation of rights under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraphs 6, 7 and 9, shall be added to the most severe punishment determined. Where deprivation of the same rights has been ruled, imposed shall be deprivation for the longest period of time.
(3) Where the punishments are different in kind and one of them is fine or confiscation, the court may add it entirely or in part to the most severe punishment.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 24
Where the punishments imposed are of the same kind, the court may increase the determined total most severe punishment by at most one half, but the punishment thus increased may not exceed neither the sum total of the separate punishments, nor the maximum extent provided for the respective kind of punishment.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 25
(1) The provisions of Articles 23 and 24 shall also apply where the person has been convicted with separate sentences.
(2) In such cases, if the punishment under any of the sentences has been served entirely or in part, it shall be deducted, provided it is of the same kind as the cumulated punishment determined to be served.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004) The service of a probation sentence shall be fully deductible from imprisonment and vice versa, two days of probation counting as one day of imprisonment.
(4) (New, SG No. 28/1982) Where under one or more of the sentences the person has been exempted from serving the imposed punishment pursuant to Article 64, paragraph (1), or to Article 66, the issue of serving the cumulative punishment shall be decided at the time of its determination.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 27
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982) Where a person commits a crime after he has been sentenced to imprisonment by sentence that has entered into force, but before serving this punishment, the court shall add to the unserved part, entirely or in part, the punishment of the second sentence, provided it is imprisonment. The total punishment as determined may not be less than the punishment under the second sentence.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982) The punishment under the second sentence shall be added entirely if it is imprisonment for more than five years or if it is imposed for repeated crime or crime constituting a case of dangerous recidivism.
(3) Where the person has committed a crime after serving the punishment imposed by the preceding sentence, the punishment imposed for this crime shall be served entirely.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 28
(1) The punishment for repeated crime provided in the special part of this Code shall be imposed, if the perpetrator has committed a crime after he has been convicted with sentence that has entered into force for another similar crime.
(2) This provision shall also apply to cases of crimes of one and the same kind against public and personal property.
Chapter 2 Crime
Section 4 Multiple Crimes
Article 29
(1) The more severe punishments provided in the special part of this Code for crimes which constitute dangerous recidivism, shall be imposed where the perpetrator:
a) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982) commits the crime after he has been convicted for grave intentional crime to imprisonment for not less than one year, and the serving of the punishment has not been suspended pursuant to Article 66;
b) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982) has committed the crime after he has been convicted two or more times to imprisonment for intentional crimes of general nature, provided at least for one of them the serving of the punishment has not been suspended under Article 66;
c) (Repealed, SG No. 28/1982).
(2) In applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph the crimes committed by the perpetrator as a minor shall not be taken into consideration.
(3) (New, SG No. 95/1975) Where for a certain crime there are provisions for concurrent elements of crime as repeated perpetration and as dangerous recidivism and the act implements the characteristics of both elements, the provision for dangerous recidivism shall apply.
Special Part
Chapter 2 Crimes against the Person
Section 1 Murder
Article 124
(1) A person who through negligence causes the death of another, as the result of an intentionally inflicted bodily injury, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to twelve years in cases of grave bodily injury, for two to eight years in case of medium bodily injury, and up to five years in case of trivial bodily injury.
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.
2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:
(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.