Book One — General provisions, felonies and penalties

Title Three

Penalties

• Penalties in General

  Art. 21Penalties that may be imposed
• Art. 22Retroactive effect of penal laws
• Art. 23Effect of pardon by the offended party
• Art. 24Measures of prevention or safety which are not considered penalties

• Classification of Penalties

  Art. 25Penalties which may be imposed
• Art. 26When afflictive, correctional, or light penaltyAmended

• Duration and Effect of Penalties

  Art. 27Reclusion perpetuaAmended
• Art. 28Computation of penalties
• Art. 29Period of preventive imprisonment deducted from term of imprisonmentAmended
• Art. 30Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporary absolute disqualification
• Art. 31Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification
• Art. 32Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification for the exercise of the right of suffrage
• Art. 33Effects of the penalties of suspension from any public office, profession or calling, or the right of suffrage
• Art. 34Civil interdiction
• Art. 35Effects of bond to keep the peace
• Art. 36Pardon; its effects
• Art. 37Costs-What are included
• Art. 38Pecuniary liabilities-Order of payment
• Art. 39Subsidiary penaltyAmended
• Art. 40Death-Its accessory penalties
• Art. 41Reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal-Their accessory penalties
• Art. 42Prision mayor-Its accessory penalties
• Art. 43Prision correccional-Its accessory penalties
• Art. 44Arresto-Its accessory penalties
• Art. 45Confiscation and forfeiture of the proceeds or instruments of the crime

• Application of Penalties

  Art. 46Penalty to be imposed upon principals in general
• Art. 47In what cases the death penalty shall not be imposed; Automatic review of the Death Penalty CasesAmended
• Art. 48Penalty for complex crimes
• Art. 49Penalty to be imposed upon the principals when the crime committed is different from that intended
• Art. 50Penalty to be imposed upon principals of a frustrated crime
• Art. 51Penalty to be imposed upon principals of attempted crimes
• Art. 52Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in a consummated crime
• Art. 53Penalty to be imposed upon accessories to the commission of a consummated felony
• Art. 54Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in a frustrated crime
• Art. 55Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of a frustrated crime
• Art. 56Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in an attempted crime
• Art. 57Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of an attempted crime
• Art. 58Additional penalty to be imposed upon certain accessories
• Art. 59Penalty to be imposed in case of failure to commit the crime because the means employed or the aims sought are impossible
• Art. 60Exception to the rules established in articles 50 to 57
• Art. 61Rules for graduating penalties
• Art. 62Effects of the attendance of mitigating or aggravating circumstances and of habitual delinquencyAmended
• Art. 63Rules for the application of indivisible penalties
• Art. 64Rules for the application of penalties which contain three periods
• Art. 65Rule in cases in which the penalty is not composed of three periods
• Art. 66Imposition of fines
• Art. 67Penalty to be imposed token not all the requisites of exemption of the fourth circumstance of article 12 are present
• Art. 68Penalty to be imposed upon a person under eighteen years of age
• Art. 69Penalty to be imposed when the crime committed is not wholly excusable
• Art. 70Successive service of sentences; exception
• Art. 71Fine
• Art. 72Preference in the payment of the civil liabilities
• Art. 73Presumption in regard to the imposition of accessory penalties
• Art. 74Penalty higher than reclusion perpetua in certain cases
• Art. 75Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees
• Art. 76Legal period of duration of divisible penalties
• Art. 77When the penalty is a complex one composed of three distinct penalties

• Execution and Service of Penalties

  Art. 78When and how a penalty is to be executed
• Art. 79Suspension of the execution and service of the penalties in case of insanity
• Art. 80Suspension of sentence of minor delinquentsAmended
• Art. 81When and how the death penalty is to be executedAmended
• Art. 82Notification and execution of the sentence and assistance to the culprit
• Art. 83Suspension of the execution of the death sentenceAmended
• Art. 84Place of execution and persons who may witness the same
• Art. 85Provision relative to the corpse of the person executed and its burial
• Art. 86Reclusion perpetua, reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision correccional and arresto mayor
• Art. 87Destierro
• Art. 88Arresto menor
• Art. 88-ACommunity ServiceInserted

Consolidated by Alleba from the 1930 text of Act No. 3815 (Lawphil) and the amending Republic Acts in our library. Amendments made by Presidential Decrees, Batas Pambansa or executive orders are not yet included. For information and research only, and not legal advice. This text may not reflect later amendments. For certified copies, refer to the Official Gazette or the issuing agency.