Section I General Provisions Article 35 (1) Penal responsibility is personal. (2) A punishment may be imposed only on a person who has committed a crime provided for by the law. (3) The punishment shall correspond to the crime. (4) A punishment for a crime shall be imposed only by the established courts of law. Article 36 (1) The punishment shall be imposed for the purpose of: 1) correcting and re-educating the convict to comply to the laws and rules of socialist community, 2) exerting warning impact on him and depriving him of the possibility to commit other crimes, and 3) producing an educative and deterring effect on the other members of society. (2) The punishment may not have as purpose the causing of physical suffering or crushing of human dignity. (3) (New, SG No. 153/1998) There shall be no capital punishment in the Republic of Bulgaria. Article 37 (1) Punishments shall be: 1) (new, SG No. 50/1995) life imprisonment; 1a) (renumbered from Item 1, SG No. 50/1995) imprisonment; 2) (new, SG No. 92/2002 - effective 1.01.2005, with respect to the punishment of probation - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004) probation; 2a) (renumbered from Item 2, SG No. 92/2002, repealed, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005); 3) confiscation of existing property; 4) a fine; 5) (repealed, SG No. 92/2002); 6) deprivation of the right to hold a certain state or public office; 7) deprivation of the right to exercise a certain vocation or activity; 8) (repealed, SG No. 92/2002); 9) deprivation of the right to receive orders, honorary titles and distinctions; 10) deprivation of military rank; 11) public censure. (2) (Amended, SG No. 153/1998) For the gravest crimes which endanger the foundations of the Republic, as well as for other particularly dangerous deliberate crimes, life imprisonment without a chance of commuting shall be provided as provisional and exceptional measure. Section II Kinds of Punishments