National penalties - life imprisonment

Cabo Verde

Cabo Verde - Constitution 1992 (2010) EN

Article 33
(Prohibition of indefinite or life imprisonment)
Under no circumstance shall there be penalty by deprivation of liberty or security measure of
a permanent nature or of an unlimited or indefinite duration.

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.