Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil has the power per­son, after con­sult­ing the can­tons, to en­act pro­vi­sions on:

a.

the ex­e­cu­tion of cu­mu­lat­ive sen­tences, sup­ple­ment­ary sen­tences and cases where two or more in­di­vidu­al sen­tences are ex­ecuted sim­ul­tan­eously;

b.

the as­sign­ment of the re­spons­ib­il­ity for ex­ecut­ing sen­tences and meas­ures to an­oth­er can­ton;

c.

the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures im­posed on per­sons suf­fer­ing from ill­ness or in­valid­ity, or eld­erly per­sons;

d.

the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures in cases un­der Art­icle 80 in­volving wo­men;

e.

the wages paid to pris­on in­mates in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 83.

^1bis The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts the re­quired pro­vi­sions on the es­tab­lish­ment of the Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion for the As­sess­ment of the Treat­ab­il­ity of Of­fend­ers sub­ject to Lifelong In­car­cer­a­tion (Art. 64c para. 1) re­lat­ing to the ap­point­ment of mem­bers of the Com­mis­sion and their re­mu­ner­a­tion, pro­ced­ures and the or­gan­isa­tion of the Com­mis­sion.⁵⁸⁹

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may at the re­quest of the re­spons­ible can­ton­al au­thor­ity is­sue spe­cial pro­vi­sions on the sep­ar­a­tion of the in­sti­tu­tions of the Can­ton of the Ti­cino.

³ …⁵⁹⁰

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may by way of a tri­al and for lim­ited time:

a.

in­tro­duce or per­mit new pen­al­ties and meas­ures as well as new forms of ex­e­cu­tion and modi­fy the scope of ap­plic­a­tion of ex­ist­ing sanc­tions and forms of ex­e­cu­tion;

b.

in­tro­duce or per­mit the del­eg­a­tion of the ex­e­cu­tion of cus­todi­al sen­tences to privately run in­sti­tu­tions that sat­is­fy the re­quire­ments of this Code re­lat­ing to the im­ple­ment­a­tion of sen­tences (Art. 74–85, 91 and 92). These in­sti­tu­tions are sub­ject to the su­per­vi­sion of the can­tons.

⁵ The can­ton­al im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions for the tri­al of new sanc­tions and forms of ex­e­cu­tion and the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences by privately run in­sti­tu­tions (para. 4) re­quire the ap­prov­al of the Con­fed­er­a­tion in or­der to be val­id.