SUBCHAPTER 8.
Art.
55. Cruel and unusual
punishments prohibited
56. Maximum limits
57. Effective date of
sentences
58. Execution of confinement
58a. Sentences: reduction in
enlisted grade upon approval
ART. 55.
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS PROHIBITED.
| Punishment by flogging, or by branding, marking, or tattooing on the body, or any other cruel or unusual punishment, may not be prescribed by a court-martial or inflicted upon any person subject to this document. The use of irons, single or double, except for the purpose of safe custody, is prohibited. |
ART. 56.
| The punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense may not exceed such limits as Star Fleet Command may prescribe for that offense. |
ART. 57.
| (a) Any period of confinement included in a sentence of a court-martial begins to run from the date the sentence is prescribed by the court-martial, but periods during which the sentence to confinement is suspended or deferred shall be excluded in computing the service of the term of confinement. |
| (b) All other sentences of courts-martial are effective on the date ordered executed. |
| (c) On application by an accused who is under sentence to confinement that has not been ordered executed, the convening authority, or, if the accused is no longer under his jurisdiction, the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the command to which the accused is currently assigned, may in his sole discretion defer service of the sentence to confinement. The deferment shall terminate when the sentence is ordered executed. The deferment may be rescinded at any time by the officer who granted it or, if the accused is no longer under his jurisdiction, by the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the command to which the accused is currently assigned. |
ART. 58.
| (a) Under such instructions as the Secretary of Star Fleet may prescribe, a sentence of confinement prescribed by a court-martial or other military tribunal, whether or not the sentence includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement in any place of confinement under the control of Star Fleet or in any penal or correctional institution under the control of the United Federation of Planets, or which the United Federation of Planets may be allowed to use. Persons so confined in a penal or correctional institution not under the control of Star Fleet are subject to the same discipline and treatment as persons confined or committed by the courts of the United Federation of Planets, it's Member Worlds, Colonies, Territories, Protectorates, outposts or facilities, or place in which the institution is situated. |
| (b) The omission of the words "hard labor" from any sentence of a court- martial adjudging confinement does not deprive the authority executing that sentence of the power to require hard labor as a part of the punishment. |
ART. 58a.
| (a) Unless otherwise provided in regulations to
be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, a court-martial sentence of an enlisted member
in pay grade above E-1, as approved by the convening authority, that includes-- (1) a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge; (2) confinement; or (3) hard labor without confinement; reduces that member to grade E1, effective on the date of that approval. |
| (b) If the sentence of a member who is reduced in grade under subsection (a) is set aside or disapproved, or, as finally approved does not include any punishment named in subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3), the rights and privileges of which he was deprived because of that reduction shall be restored to him and he is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled for the period the reduction was in effect, had he not been so reduced. |
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