Article 56
Concurrence of sentences
If before serving the full sentence, the convicted is sentenced for a criminal act committed prior to the sentencing, the rules of the previous article shall apply, and the already served portion will be calculated into the new sentence.
When the convicted commits a new criminal act after his sentencing, but before the full term of the sentence is served, the court concurs the new sentence with the remaining portion of the previous term, according to the rules provided for in Article 55 of this Code.

Article 57
Detention
Detention period is calculated in imprisonment, fine, or work in public interest as follows:
One day of detention equals to one day and a half of imprisonment.
One day of detention equals to a fine of one thousand leks.
One day of detention equals to eighteen hours of`work in public interest..

CHAPTER VII
ALTERNATIVES TO IMPRISONMENT
Article 58
Fragmentation of imprisonment
For punishments up to one year of imprisonment, if the court notices grave family, medical, professional, or social circumstances, it may decide the fragmentary execution of the sentence for not less than two days per week.
In any case, the execution of the sentence must be completed within three years.
The court revokes the fragmentary sentence when these circumstances cease to exist, or when the convicted violates the obligations defined in the sentence.

Article 59
Suspending the execution of a sentence
If the person and the circumstances under which the criminal act was committed are of little dangerousness, the court, while sentencing up to five years of imprisonment, may rule the probation of the convicted, thus suspending the execution of the sentence, provided that during probation he will not commit any other criminal act equally serious or more serious than the previous one.
Probation extends from eighteen months to five years.

Article 60
Sanctions against the convicted under probation
The court may compel the convicted under probation to meet one or some of the following sanctions:
1. To exercise a professional activity or to gain professional education or training.
2. To pay family pensions in due time.
3. To compensate for torts.
4. To be banned from driving certain vehicles.
5. To be forbidden to exercise a professional activity if the criminal act relates to such activity.
6. To be forbidden from certain places.
7. To be forbidden from shops serving alcoholic beverages.
8. To stay in his residence during certain hours.
9. To avoid the company of determined persons, mainly convicts or collaborators of the criminal act.
10. Not to carry weapons.
11. To be subdued to medical treatment against alcohol and narcotics.

Article 61
Convicted's obligations during probation
During probation the convicted is obliged:
1. To respond to calls and demands of the legal organs supervising probation.
2. To inform the supervising organs of probation on the work-related changes.
3. To obtain permission from the supervising organs of probation for any changes of residence or job, or visits abroad.

Article 62
Revoking the sentence on suspending through
If, during the term of probation, the convicted commits a criminal act of the same degree or even a more serious act than the previous one, the court shall revoke the suspension sentence.
Revoking is made even when the convicted, without having reasonable cause, has not met the measures and sanctions mentioned in Articles 60 and 61 of this Code, which were imposed upon him.
When the suspension sentence is not revoked, the [first] sentence given is considered void.

Article 63
Suspension of imprisonment and compulsion to perform labor in favor of public interest
The court may suspend the imprisonment sentence if the latter is under one year, and replace it with the compulsion to perform labor in favor of public interest, if the person and the circumstances under which the criminal act was committed are of little danger.
Labor in favor of public interest extends from forty to two hundred and forty hours and consists in compelling the convicted to perform unpayed labor in favor of public interest or to the benefit of an organization as nominated in the court verdict.
The compulsion may not be ruled if the convicted refuses the suspension during the court hearing.
Labor in favor of public interest is performed within a six months term.
In its sentence the court determines the working hours, as well as the days of week when the labor will be performed.
After the labor is accomplished, the sentence is considered non-existent.
This kind of suspension is enforced according to the rules defined in Articles 61 and 62 of this Code

Article 64
Early release on parole
The imprisoned person may be released on parole if:
He has served not less than half of the term and his behavior and work show that the educational aim has been achieved.
[Imprisonment] term benefitted through an amnesty or pardon is not calculated in the half of the term served.
A recidivist is deprived of the right to early release on parole.
Release on parole may be revoked by the court if the convicted, during the parole period, commits another criminal act equally serious or more serious than the previous one, applying the provisions on concurrence.

Article 65
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A convicted serving life imprisonment is deprived of the right to early release on parole.
Only in extraordinary circumstances may the convicted serving life imprisonment be released on parole, [and precisely when]:
He has served no less than twenty five years of imprisonment and, during the period serving his sentence, has had excellent behavior and it is deemed that the educational aim has been achieved.

CHAPTER VIII
CESSATION OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, PUNISHMENTS, AND THEIR NON-EXECUTION

Article 66
Statute of limitations for criminal prosecution
Criminal prosecution shall not be conducted if, from the moment the act was committed till the moment that the person is held defendant, have elapsed:
a) twenty years on offences for which the law provides sentences of no lower than ten years of imprisonment or other heavier punishment.
b) ten years on offences for which the law provides sentences between five and ten years of imprisonment;
c) five years on offences for which the law provides sentences up to five years of imprisonment or fine;
d) three years for criminal contraventions which provide sentences up to two years of imprisonment;
e) two years for criminal contraventions which provide fines.

Article 67
Non-operation of the statute of limitations on criminal prosecution
There is no statute of limitation operative on criminal prosecution against war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Article 68
Statute of limitations on the execution of sentences
The sentence is not executed if from the day it became final have elapsed:
a) twenty years for imprisonment sentences between fifteen to twenty-five years;
b) ten years for imprisonment sentences between five to fifteen years;
c) five years for imprisonment sentences of up to five years or other lighter sentences.

Article 69
Nullification of sentencing
It is considerednull and void the sentencing of:
a) those who are convicted with imprisonment sentences up to six months or with any other lighter sentence, whohave not committed other criminal act for two years since the [last] day of their served sentence.
b) those who are convicted with imprisonment sentences ranging from six months up to five years and who have not committed other criminal act for five years since the [last] day of their served sentence
c) those who are convicted with imprisonment sentences ranging from five to ten years and who have not committed other criminal act for seven years since the [last] day of their served sentence.
d) those who are convicted with imprisonment sentences ranging from ten to twenty-five years and who have not committed other criminal act for ten years since the [last] day of their served sentence.

Article 70
Pardon
Through the act of pardoning the competent authority either excludes the person completely or partially from serving the court sentence or substitutes the sentence with a lighter one.

Article 71
Amnesty
Through the act of amnesty the competent authority excludes a person from criminal prosecution, from serving the sentence completely or partially, or substitutes the sentence with a lighter one.
Amnesty includes all those criminal acts committed up to one day prior to its announcement unless otherwise provided for by the respective act.

Article 72
Applicability of provisions of the General Part
The provisions of the General Part of this Code shall also apply for other criminal acts provided for as such by special laws.

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER I
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Article 73
Genocide
The execution of a premeditated plan aiming at the total or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group directed towards its members, and combined with the following acts, such as: intentionally killing a group's members, serious physical and psychological harm, placement in difficult living conditions which cause physical destruction, applying birth preventing measures, as well as the obligatory transfer of children from one group to another, is sentenced with no less than ten years of imprisonment, or with life imprisonment, or death penalty.

Article 74
Crimes against humanity
Killing, massacres, slavery, internal exile and deportation, as well as every act of torture or other inhuman violence committed for political, ideological, racial, ethnic and religious reasons, are sentenced with no less than fifteen years of imprisonment, or with life imprisonment, or death penalty.

Article 75
War crimes
Acts committed by different people in war time such as murder, maltreatment or deportation for slavery labor, as well as any other inhuman exploitation to the detriment of civil population or in occupied territory, the killing or maltreatment of war prisoners, the killing of hostages, destruction of private or public property, destruction of towns, commons or villages, which are not ordained from military necessity, are sentenced with no less than fifteen years of imprisonment, or life imprisonment, or death penalty.