immediately thereafter, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 121
For murder of a newly born offspring of monstrous appearance, the culpable parent shall
be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or by probation.
Article 122
(1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A person who causes the death of another through
negligence shall be punished by imprisonment for up to five years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) If the death has been caused by firearms or by strong
poisonous substance, or if death has been caused to two or more persons, the punishment shall be
imprisonment from one to six years.
Article 123
(1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A person who causes the death of another through
ignorance or negligent performance of vocation or other legally regulated activity, constituting a
source of major danger, shall be punished by imprisonment from one to six years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A person who causes through negligence the death of
another by actions referred to a vocation or activity under the preceding paragraph, which he
does not have the right to exercise, shall be punished by imprisonment from two to eight years.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) If in the cases of the preceding paragraphs the perpetrator
has been in a state of drunkenness, or if death has been caused to more than one person, the
punishment shall be deprivation of liberty for three to ten years, and in particularly grave cases imprisonment for five to fifteen years.
(4) If the perpetrator after the act has done everything within his capacity to save the
victim, the punishment shall be: under paragraphs (1) and (2) - imprisonment for up to three
years; under paragraph (3) - imprisonment for up to five years, and in particularly grave cases imprisonment for three to ten years.
Article 124
(1) A person who through negligence causes the death of another, as the result of an
intentionally inflicted bodily injury, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to twelve years
in cases of grave bodily injury, for two to eight years in case of medium bodily injury, and up to
five years in case of trivial bodily injury.
(2) (New, SG No. 95/1975, amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 89/1986) If the act under
the preceding paragraph has been committed in a state of strong vexation, which has been
provoked by the victim with violence, grave insult or slander, or with another unlawful action
from which grave consequences have occurred or could occur for the culprit or his next-of-kin,
the punishment shall be: in case of grave bodily injury - imprisonment for up to five years; in
case of medium bodily injury - imprisonment for up to three years; in case of a trivial bodily
injury - imprisonment for up to two years.
(3) (New, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 - amended, SG
No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) If the bodily injury
which caused the death represents a dangerous recidivism, the punishment shall be: in case of
grave bodily injury - imprisonment from five to fifteen years, and in case of medium bodily
injury - imprisonment from three to ten years.