Chapter 7 Punishment
Article 42
Imprisonment
(1) Imprisonment may not be shorter than thirty days or longer than twenty years.
Chapter 7 Punishment
Article 42b
Long-Term Imprisonment Article
(1) For the gravest forms of serious criminal offences perpetrated with intent, a long-term imprisonment for a term between twenty-one and forty-five years may be imposed.
(2) Long-term imprisonment may never be imposed as the sole principal punishment for a particular criminal offence.
(3) Long-term imprisonment cannot be imposed on a perpetrator who has not reached twenty- one years of age at the time of perpetrating the criminal offence.
(4) Long-term imprisonment shall be meted out in full years only.
(5) If long-term imprisonment has been imposed, amnesty or pardon may be granted only after three-fifths of the punishment has been served.
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.