National penalties - life imprisonment

Kiribati

Kiribati - Geneva Conventions 1993 EN

PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS AGAINST CONVENTIONS

Grave breaches of Geneva Conventions
3. (2) (a) in the case of such a grave breach involving the wilful killing of a person protected by the Convention in question, be sentenced 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.