The Article deals with the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan which was adopted on December 30, 1999, and entered into force on September 1, 2000.
The penalty, and deprivation of the right to hold the certain posts or to engage in the certain activity may be applied as both basic and additional kinds of punishments.
6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty on 25 January 2001, ratified it on April 15, 2002, and the Protocol entered into force in the country on 1 May 2002.
For the end of February, 2018, the National Assembly adopted the last amnesty act on May 20, 2016 on the occasion of May 28 - Republic Day.
The Code defines certain circles of crimes (Articles 144-1, 144-2, 193-1, 194, 214, 214-1, 271–273, 308, 311, 312, 312-1, 313, 316-1 and 316-2) for which the legal persons may be subject to criminal liability.
Generally, persons reached age of 16 at the time of commitment of a crime are subject to criminal liability.
However, persons, achieved age of fourteen, are subject to criminal liability for the commitment of the following crimes: deliberate murder; deliberate causing of heavy or less heavy harm to health, kidnapping of the person, rape, violent actions of sexual nature, theft, robbery, extortion, illegal occupation of the automobile or other vehicle without the purpose of plunder, deliberate destruction or damage of property under aggravating circumstances, terrorism, capture of the hostage, hooliganism under aggravating circumstances, plunder or extortion of fire-arms, ammunition, explosives and explosives, plunder or extortion of narcotics or psychotropic substances, reduction unsuitability of vehicles or means of communication.