National penalties - life imprisonment

Sudan

The Criminal Act 1991

Part IV
Sanctions

Chapter I
Penalties

Imprisonment and expatriation
33.(1) Penalty of imprisonment shall include :

(a) life imprisonment, the term of which shall be twenty 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.