Ranchev, Ivan2025-12-222025-12-222025-12-15978-619-7768-49-7https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/878This report examines certain issues related to the system of sanctions in Bulgarian criminal law that necessitate reform. Attention is given to the need to abolish the most severe punishment – life imprisonment without parole; to the alarming trends regarding the most frequently imposed punishment - imprisonment; to the underestimated importance of probation, property sanctions, and deprivation of rights; as well as to the lack of relevance, under modern conditions, of the lightest form of punishment – public censure.otherCriminal CodeCriminal Procedure CodeLaw on Execution of Punishments and Detention Measurespunishmentsexecution of punishmentsArticle