National penalties - life imprisonment

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER VII
PENALTIES

Imprisonment

Section 34
Imprisonment is imposed for a fixed duration or for a life term.

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER VII
PENALTIES

Life Imprisonment

Section 41

(1) Only persons over the age of twenty at the time of commission of the criminal act shall be sentenced to life imprisonment. This provision also applies to the life sentences imposed under Subsection (4) of Section 81 and Subsection (2) of Section 90.
(2) Life imprisonment shall be served in a penitentiary.

Hungary - Fundamental Law 2011 (2019) EN

FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

ARC. article
(2) No one shall be deprived of his liberty save on such grounds or in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law. Imprisonment for Life imprisonment can only be imposed for the commission of an intentional, violent crime.

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.