National penalties - life imprisonment

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein - Criminal Code 1987 (2021) EN

§ 18
Penalties of imprisonment
1) Penalties of imprisonment shall be imposed for life or for a specific length of time.

§ 321
Genocide
1) Any person who, with the purpose of destroying, in whole or in part, a group determined by its affiliation with a church or religious group, a race, a people, a tribe, or a state, kills members of the group, causes serious bodily (§ 84 paragraph 1) or psychological harm to them, subjects the group to conditions of life capable of bringing about the death of all members or any part of the group, imposes measures intended473 to prevent births within the group, or, by force or the threat of force, transfers children of the group to another group, shall be punished with imprisonment for life.
2) Any person who conspires with another person to jointly commit any of the acts set out in paragraph 1 shall be punished with imprisonment of one to ten years.

§ 321a474
Crimes against humanity
1) Any person who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population,
2. with the purpose of destroying a population in whole or in part, subjects this population or parts thereof to conditions of life capable of causing their destruction in whole or in part,
shall be punished with imprisonment for life.

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.