National penalties - life imprisonment

Saint Lucia

Criminal Code

CHAPTER ONE
General Provisions

PART IV
PARTICIPATION AND INCHOATE OFFENCES

Participation

Punishment where crime aided and abetted is not committed
65. (a) if the crime he or she aided and abetted was murder, be liable to imprisonment for life; or

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.