Chapter 3. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THEIR SANCTIONS
Article 6:
Shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or an imprisonment of ten (10) to twenty (20) years, any person who will have committed a crime against humanity provided for in point 4°, 5°, 8°, 10° of 11 ° of Article 5 of this law.
Where the, crime against humanity provided for in the preceding paragraph is accompanied with inhuman and degrading treatment, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Article 3: Substitution of death penalty
(Modified and complemented by Organic Law n° 66/2008 of 21/11/2008)
In all the legislative texts in force before the commencement of this Organic Law, the death penalty is hereby substituted by life imprisonment or life imprisonment with special provisions as provided for by this Organic Law.
However, life imprisonment with special provisions as provided for by paragraph one of this Article shall not be pronounced in respect of cases transferred to Rwanda from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and from other States in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law n° 11/2007 of 16/03/2007 concerning the transfer of cases to the Republic of Rwanda from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and from other States.
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.