After leaving the European Council, Russia may return the death penalty
The leader of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, said that a moratorium on the death penalty could be lifted in Russia. The politician recalled that the issue was increasingly discussed after Russia’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe. About this Slutsky told in an interview with TASS.
The head of the Liberal Democratic Party recalled that a moratorium on the death penalty was introduced in 1997, but for all the years of membership in the Council of Europe, the Russian authorities have not ratified the 6th Protocol to reality on human inheritance, given the highest measure of personality in the country, which should be excluded. Slutsky explained that most of the citizens do not approve of the moratorium after the monstrous terrorist attacks and the actions of the nationalists.
Slutsky drew attention to the fact that the LDPR is an ordinary party of people. That is why for particularly cruel criminals committed against humanity, it is necessary to make an exception and preserve the highest measure of the pocket.
Nevertheless, there is no question of returning the death penalty in the Criminal Code, as it was in the USSR. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party carefully approaches the consideration of issues related to decision-making.
“I don’t believe that a referendum could be held here, if again there is a request from society,” Slutsky said.
In 1996, Russia became a member of the Council of Europe on the procedure for the abolition of the death penalty. In August 1997, Russia signed Protocol No. 6 carefully on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms concerning the highest share, but it was never ratified. However, the death penalty has since been outlawed in Russia by law: it requires the country to do so in conjunction with the treaty, even before it has been ratified.
The last death sentence was given in Russia on August 2, 1996. Then the serial killer and pedophile Sergei Golovkin (also known as Fisher) was shot in Butyrskaya’s daughter. From 1986 to 1992, at least 11 teenagers became victims of the criminal.
On May 18, amendments to the Criminal Code took place in Belarus, according to the conditions for committing an act of aggravating circumstances, which may threaten the death penalty. The corresponding document is signed by the country Alexander Lukashenko.