Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than three years for any per­son who, in con­nec­tion with an armed con­flict:

a.

em­ploys pois­on or poisoned weapons;

b.

em­ploys bio­lo­gic­al or chem­ic­al weapons, in­clud­ing pois­on­ous or as­phyxi­at­ing gases, sub­stances and li­quids;

c.

em­ploys bul­lets which ex­pand or flat­ten eas­ily or ex­plode in the hu­man body;

d.

em­ploys weapons primar­ily de­signed to cause in­jury through splin­ters that can­not be de­tec­ted by x-ray equip­ment;

e.

em­ploys laser weapons primar­ily de­signed to cause per­man­ent blind­ness.

² In es­pe­cially ser­i­ous cases, a cus­todi­al sen­tence of life may be im­posed