National penalties - life imprisonment

Costa Rica

Costa Rica - Constitution 1949 (2020) ES

ARTÍCULO 40.- Nadie será sometido a tratamientos crueles o degradantes ni a penas perpetuas, ni a la pena de confiscación. Toda declaración obtenida por medio de violencia será nula.

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.