Principal penalties are:
2) Imprisonment for life
Article 20
Imprisonment for Life
“ Imprisonment for life” means confining the convict in a facility so designed and assigning him to a life of labor as prescribed by the rules of the prisons.
Article 29.
Imprisonment for life instead of death.
Imprisonment instead of imprisonment for life
Article 53
Felonies
Felonies are crimes punishable by:
imprisonment for life
Penalties for attempt to commit a felony
-In other cases, the sentence shall be imprisonment with reduction of the limits to half.
Article 167
Should the aforementioned crimes be committed in a time of war or should the perpetrator be a public officer or envoy on a general or any other mission he was assigned to carry out, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life.
Article 168
Should the act result in the severance of diplomatic relations or an act of vengeance against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or its citizens wherever they may be, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life.
Article 211
Any person who causes the agreement, founds, organizes or leads the organization or gang and any person who organizes, is party to the agreement or a member of the organization or gang shall be subject to the same punishment.
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.