National penalties - life imprisonment

Bahamas

Bahamas - Penal Code 2017 (EN)

116. (1) Where a crime is declared by this Code, or by any other statute, to be felony, and the punishment for it is not specified, a person convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for seven 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.