National penalties - life imprisonment

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan - Criminal Code 1997 (2004) EN

Section III. Punishment

Article 48. Deprivation of Freedom

4. Life-time deprivation of freedom shall be established only as an alternative for capital punishment for the commission of especially grave crimes which infringe upon life, and it may be established in cases in which a court decides not to apply capital punishment. Life-time deprivation of freedom shall not be sentenced upon women, as well as to persons having committed a crime under the age of eighteen, and men who reach the age of sixty five by the moment of passing of a given sentence.

THE SPECIAL PART

Chapter 4. Crimes Against Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 156. Planning, Preparation, Starting, or Waging an Aggressive War

1. Planning, preparation, or starting an aggressive war, -
shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from seven to twelve years.

2. Conducting an aggressive war shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from ten up to twenty years, or by capital punishment, or by life-time imprisonment.

THE SPECIAL PART

Chapter 4. Crimes Against Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 160. Genocide

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from ten to twenty years, or by capital punishment or life-time imprisonment.

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.