National penalties - life imprisonment

Swaziland

Swaziland - Constitution 2005 EN

Protection of right to life
15.
(3) A sentence of life imprisonment shall not be less than twenty five years.

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.