Kremlin: we will not return the death penalty

The Kremlin will not consider the issue of returning the death penalty. “The discussion of this issue is not worth it in a practical plane,” the presidential administration officer quotes the Interfax. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the Kremlin does not comment on the statement of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Vladimir Kolokoltsev about the need to use the death penalty, "all the more so since he emphasized that he expresses his personal opinion."

Earlier on Monday, the State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin spoke out against the return of the death penalty. The head of the Duma Committee on the Legislation of Unenos Pavel Krasheninnikov made a similar statement. According to him, the use of such a punishment can calm public opinion, but will not eliminate the "root of evil." "The point is not even in our obligations to the Council of Europe. The problem is much deeper: we need the abolition of the death penalty, since the state should not be an instrument of revenge," said Uniceros.

The Communist Party deputy Alexander Kulikov, on the contrary, supported the opinion of Kolokoltsev, noting that the position of his entire faction is. The experience of the USSR showed that the introduction of the death penalty reduces the crime rate, the communist noted. The statement by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Senoros Senoros Viktor Ozerov and Eageniy Tarlo, who headed the committees for defense and security and constitutional legislation in the Council of Ministers approved.

On February 10, Kolokoltsev, commenting on the murders of girls in the Naberezhnye Chelny and the Irkutsk region, told the final program NTV that he sees nothing reprehensible in the death penalty for particularly cruel crimes. "I believe that the death penalty in such cases is a normal reaction of society to a failed fact," the minister said.

“I am afraid to incur the anger of opponents of the death penalty. But if not as a minister, but as a simple citizen, I would not have seen anything reprehensible for such criminals. But also if you look at examples of different countries: in Europe there is one approach, in America there is another approach, each state has its own approach to this problem,” Kolokoltsev noted.

The death penalty has not been used in Russia since 1999. Until 2010, a moratorium on the execution of death sentences, introduced after Russia entered the Council of Europe. After the period of the moratorium, the death penalty was prohibited by the decision of the Constitutional Court.

In August 2012, the question of restoring the death penalty was raised by the State Duma deputy from United Russia Franz Klintsevich. He proposed to introduce the death penalty for pedophiles, corrupt officials and "war criminals."

In December 2011, the presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Khloponin, proposed to introduce the death penalty for terrorists. "According to him, you can go following the example of Belarus, where only the president can make a decision on pardon in this case.