Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a person convicted of murder is punishable with:

Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, corresponding to section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, provides that whoever commits murder shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. The choice between death and life imprisonment lies with the court having regard to the facts and circumstances, and by settled judicial exposition the death sentence is confined to the rarest of rare cases. Section 104 separately deals with murder committed by a person already under a sentence of life imprisonment, and section 105 governs culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which carries imprisonment for life or a term of ten years under its different limbs. Since the question concerns the general punishment for murder, death or life imprisonment with fine is the correct answer.