Article 68. Life imprisonment
1. Life imprisonment consists of the forced isolation of a convicted person from society by sending him to a special regime penal colony and is established for the commission of crimes provided for in Part 2 of Article 122 , Parts 3, 4 of Article 154 , Parts 3, 4 of Article 155 , Part 3 of Article 156 , Part 3 of Article 252 , Articles 402 , 403 , 405 , Part 3 of Article 410 of this Code, if the court does not find it possible to apply imprisonment for a specified period.
2. Life imprisonment shall not be imposed on women, persons who committed a crime at the age of under eighteen, or men who reached the age of sixty at the time of the crime.
3. Life imprisonment may be replaced by imprisonment for a term of twenty years by way of pardon.
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.