Please provide the answers to these queries citing appropriate legal

authorities. Write your answers in yellow pad papers with your full
name and student number.

1. What is a penalty? What are the Constitutional and statutory

limitations on the imposition of a penalty?

2. When can a penalty be enforced or executed?

3. What are the principal and accessory penalties that may be imposed
under the Revised Penal Code? Is it necessary for the court to state in
the dispositive portion of his/her decision both the principal and
accessory penalties that he/she has imposed on the convict?

4. What are the indivisible penalties? If reclusion perpetua is an

indivisible penalty, why does it have a duration of from 20 years and 1
day to 20 years?

5. The death penalty

a. Is the death penalty a cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment?

b. Has the death penalty been abolished?

c. Should we still include the death penalty in the graduated scale

under Article 71 of the Revised Penal Code?

d. How can you reconcile the decision of the Supreme Court in People
v. Bon, G.R. No. 166401, 30 October 2006, with its decisions in
People v. Sarcoma, G.R. No. 169641, 10 September 2009 and
People v. Arpon, G.R. No. 183563, 14 December 2011?

e. If Congress wants to reimpose the death penalty, what are the

Constitutional requirements? Please explain.

6. Is reclusion perpetua and life imprisonment the same? If not, what are
their differences?

7. Is bond to keep the peace the same as bond for good behavior? If not,
discuss their differences.

8. What is preventive imprisonment? Discuss the amendments

introduced by Republic Act No. 10592 (2013)?

9. Discuss, in your own words, the rules on subsidiary penalty.

10. Enumerate the instances where the penalties of destierro and public
censure are imposed.