National penalties - life imprisonment

Seychelles

The Penal Code

PART I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER VI
Punishments

26. (1) A person liable to imprisonment for life or any other period may be sentenced for any shorter term.

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.