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 damages may be employed as either basic or supplementary penalties.

Confiscation of property and deprivation of a military or special title may be employed only as supplementary penalties.

'''Article 23. An exceptional measure of punishment: the death penalty'''

Application of the death penalty, by shooting, is permitted in the form of an exceptional measure of punishment, pending its complete abrogation, for treason (Article 64), espionage (Article 65), acts of terrorism (articles 65 and 67), sabotage (Article 68), banditry (Article 77), premeditated homicide with aggregating circumstances as enumerated in Article 102 and Item c of Article 240 of the present Code, and in time of war or under combat conditions, for other especially serious crimes in those cases specially stipulated by the legislation of the USSR.

The following shall not be sentenced to the death penalty: persons who had not reached the age of 18 years prior to the commission of the crime, and women who were in a state of pregnancy at the time of commission of the crime or by the time sentence is passed. The death penalty shall not be applied to a women who is in a state of pregnancy at the time of execution of sentence.

'''Article 24. Deprivation of freedom.'''

Deprivation of freedom is prescribed for periods of from three months to ten years; or, for especially serious crimes and for especially dangerous recidivists, in those cases enumerated in the Special Part of the present Code, for not more than 30 years.

When sentencing a person who was under 18 years of age at the time of commission of the crime, the period of deprivation of freedom shall not exceed ten years.

Adult persons condemned to deprivation of freedom serve their sentences in a corrective labor colony or in prison. Minors serve their sentences in a labor colony for minors.

Deprivation of freedom in the form of confinement in prison for the entire period of the sentence, or part of such period, may be assigned by the court to persons who have committed serious crimes, or to especially dangerous recidivists.

In the case of persons who have served not less than one half of the period of confinement in prison, provided their behavior has been exemplary, the court may substitute detention in a colony for