National penalties - life imprisonment

Tanzania, United Republic of

Code of Criminal Law

PART II
CRIMES

Division I. — Offences against Public Order

CHAPTER VII
TREASON AND OTHER OFFENCES AGAINST THE REPUBLIC

43. Promoting warlike undertakings Act. No. 2 of 1970

Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or devises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike undertaking with, for, by or against any person or body or group of persons in the United Republic, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for life.

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.