Any person whop is sentenced to capital punishment shall be hanged. Article 14 The hard labor penalty shall employ the convict in performing the most arduous work determined by the government for his whole life if the penalty is permanent, or for the period be is sentenced to if it is a temporary period. The temporary hard labor penalty period shall not be less than three years and not more than fifteen years except in the special cases prescribed in the law. Article 15 Men of more than sixty years of age and women generally, who are sentenced to a hard labor penalty, shall spend their penalty period in one of the general jails. Article 16 A penalty of imprisonment shall be to confine the convict in one of the general jails and to employ him/her within or outside the jail in works to be determined by the Government for the period he/she is sentenced to. This period shall not be less than three years or more than fifteen years except in the special cases prescribed in the law. Article 17 In felony counts, if the conditions of the crime for which the popular action is brought necessitate the judge's lenity, the penalty may be changed as follows: Capital punishment penalty may be replaced by a life hard labor or temporary hard labor penalty. A permanent hard labor penalty may be replaced by a temporary hard labor penalty or by imprisonment. A temporary hard labor penalty may be replaced by imprisonment or confinement penalty that may not be less than six months. An imprisonment sentence may be replaced by confinement penalty which may not be less than three months.