National penalties - life imprisonment

Afghanistan

Afghanistan - Criminal Procedure Code 2014 EN

Section 2 Criminal Case

Chapter 2 Dismissal of a Criminal Case and Punishments

Statute of Limitations for Punishment
Article 76:

The punishment shall be dismissed after passage of the following time periods after issuance of verdict:

2– If sentenced to continuing imprisonment, after 20 years.

Rome Statute

Article 77 Applicable penalties

1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:

(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or

(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.