7/9/2021 Revised Penal Code - Wikipedia

Entire Minimum Maximum

Name Type Medium length Accessory penalties
length length length
Perpetual absolute disqualification and that of civil interdiction during thirty years
Death Capital Not applied; commuted to reclusión perpetua.
following the date of sentence
Reclusión
20 years and 1 day to 40 years[7]
perpetua
12 years 12 years and 14 years and 8 17 years Civil interdiction for life or during the period of the sentence as the case may be, and
Reclusión and one one day to 14 months to 17 and 4 perpetual absolute disqualification
temporal day to 20 years and 8 years and 4 months to
Afflictive years months months 20 years

6 years
10 years If disqualification is imposed, 12 years and 1 day
Prisión and one 6 years and 1 8 years and 1
and 1 day
mayor day to 12 day to 8 years day to 10 years Temporary absolute disqualification and that of perpetual special disqualification
to 12 years
years from the right of suffrage

Suspension from public office, from the right to follow a profession or calling, and that
Prisión
of perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage, if the duration of said
correccional
6 months 6 months and 2 years, 4 4 years, 2 imprisonment shall exceed eighteen months.
and one 1 day to 2 months and 1 months and
Suspension If suspension is imposed, 6 years
day to 6 years and 4 day to 4 years 1 day to 6
years months and 2 months years Any person sentenced to destierro shall not be permitted to enter the place or places
Destierro Correctional designated in the sentence, nor within the radius therein specified, which shall be not
more than 250 and not less than 25 kilometers from the place designated.
1 month
4 months
Arresto and 1 day 1 month to 2 2 months and 1
and 1 day
mayor to 6 months day to 4 months Suspension of the right to hold office and the right of suffrage during the term of the
to 6 months
months sentence
Arresto 1 day to 1 day to 10 11 days to 20 21 days to
Light
menor 30 days days days 30 days

Other penalties
Public censure (also a light penalty)
Fines (also an afflictive penalty)
Civil interdiction: Deprive the offender during the time of his sentence of the rights of parental authority, or guardianship

Accessory penalties
Perpetual or temporary special disqualification:
The deprivation of the office, employment, profession or calling affected;
The disqualification for holding similar offices or employments either perpetually or during the term of the sentence according to the extent of such
disqualification.
Perpetual or temporary special disqualification for the exercise of the right of suffrage
Deprive the offender perpetually or during the term of the sentence, according to the nature of said penalty, of the right to vote in any popular election
for any public office or to be elected to such office. Moreover, the offender shall not be permitted to hold any public office during the period of his
disqualification.
Suspension from any public office, profession or calling, or the right of suffrage
Disqualify the offender from holding such office or exercising such profession or calling or right of suffrage during the term of the sentence

Title Four: Extinction of criminal liability and civil liability

Extinction of criminal liability

This discusses when criminal liability is extinguished. These include by death of the convict, service of the sentence, by amnesty, and by absolute pardon,
among others.

Prescription of crimes

This discusses when crimes can no longer by prosecuted, from the crime is discovered by the offended party, the authorities, or their agents.

Penalty Length of time

Death, reclusión perpetua or reclusión temporal 20 years
Correctional penalty, except arresto mayor 10 years
Arresto mayor 5 years
Libel and other similar offenses 1 year
Oral defamation and slander 6 months
Light offenses 2 months

Title Five: Civil liability

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