II.E. PENALTIES

Question 1

What are the general principles in penalties?

Question 2

What is the effect of pardon by the offended party?

Question 3

Enumerate the measures of prevention or safety which are not considered penalties

Question 4

Under R.A. No. 9346, what shall be imposed in place of the death penalty?

Question 5

May a person convicted of an offense punished with reclusion perpetua, or whose sentences will be reduced to reclusion perpetua from the death penalty be eligible for parole?

Question 6

What are the purpose of penalties?

Question 7

What are the scales of penalties?

Question 8

What are the principal penalties?

Question 9

Capital penalties

Question 10

Afflictive penalties

Question 11

Correctional penalties

Question 12

Light penalties

Question 13

Penalties common to afflictive, correctional, and light penalties

Question 14

What are the accessory penalties?

Question 15

Classification of Fines

Answer 15

Art. 26. RPC

Afflictive penalty - exceeds 1,200,000
Correctional penalty - does not exceed 1,200,000 but IS NOT LESS than 40,000
Light penalty - LESS than 40,000

NOTE: when a fine of 40,000 is considered correctional penalty despite its classification as light felony

Question 16

What is the duty of the court in sentencing an accused of a crime where the law prescribes an alternative penalty of fine or imprisonment?

Question 17

What is subsidiary imprisonment?

Question 18

What are the classification of felonies?

Question 19

What are grave felonies?

Question 20

What are less grave felonies?

Question 21

What are light felonies?

Question 22

What are the graduated scales of penalties under Article 71?

Question 23

What are the purposes for classifying felonies under Article 9 of the RPC?

Question 24

What is the purpose of classifying the penalties under Article 25 and 26 in the RPC?

Question 25

What is the purpose of the graduated scale under Article 71?

Question 26

What is the purpose of the scale of penalties under Article 70?