False evidence leading to capital conviction attracts life or long imprisonment, and may entail capital punishment if execution results. Giving or fabricating false evidence intending, or knowing it likely, to cause conviction for a capital offence is an offence requiring intent and causation; it carries imprisonment for life or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and a fine. If an innocent person is convicted and executed as a consequence of such false evidence, the offender is punishable either with death or with the principal punishment prescribed for the offence.