National penalties - life imprisonment

Argentina

Argentina - Criminal Code (ES) 1984 (2017)

ARTICULO 5º.- Las penas que este Código establece son las siguientes: reclusión, prisión, multa e inhabilitación.

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.