An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Criminal Procedure.
PART VI - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS
CHAPTER XXVI - OF THE JUDGMENT
368.(1) When any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he be hanged by the neck
till he is dead.
PART VI: THE JUDICIARY
Chapter I: The Supreme Court
103. Jurisdiction of Appellate Division
The Appellate Division shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from judgments, decrees, orders or sentences of the High Court Division.
An appeal to the Appellate Division from a judgment, decree, order or sentence of the High Court Division shall lie as of right where the High Court Division-
has confirmed a sentence of death or sentenced a person to death or to 62imprisonment for life ; or
THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).
CHAPTER III- OF PUNISHMENTS
54. In every case in which sentence of death shall have been passed, 18[ the Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for any other punishment provided by this Code.
THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).
CHAPTER XI - OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
194. Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any person to be convicted of an offence which is capital by any law for the time being in force, shall be punished with 70[ imprisonment] for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine;
and if an innocent person be convicted and executed in consequence of such false evidence, the person who gives such false evidence shall be punished either with death or the punishment herein before described.
Article 20 Judgement and sentence
(2) Upon conviction of an accused person, the Tribunal shall award sentence of death or such other punishment proportionate to the gravity of the crime as appears to the Tribunal to be just and proper
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.
2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:
(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.