To execute is so popular

The moratorium on the death penalty can be canceled in Russia only following the results of the referendum. This was stated by the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, answering questions after a lecture at the Moscow State Law University, the press service of the TFR reports .

“Bastrykin spoke about the fact that the moratorium on the death penalty is permissible to cancel only according to the results of the referendum, and it should be applied only in exceptional cases in relation to persons who have committed especially serious crimes that represent increased social danger. At the same time, he himself is a supporter of acting humane means, and not to set the goal of alienating people,” the report said.

In December 2015, Bastrykin spoke out for the return of the death penalty . "Liberals begin to argue: the death penalty is needed-it is not necessary that it is better, that it is better, that in a Christian, not Christian. I personally play for the death penalty, primarily as a person. I believe that people who commit such serious crimes are not in place on earth," the head of the Investigative Committee said, commenting on the death of 13-year-old residents of Udmurtia Andrei Kasimov, who died, which died, which defended. From the pedophile his sister.

“I am not afraid of criticism when they begin to criticize me or those who express such thoughts. There is no need to be hypocrite. Evil should be punishable. I took someone else's life, all the more the life of the child,” you will pay your own, ”Bastrykin explained. He noted that he has been working in law enforcement agencies since 1975 and from his own experience knows that the criminals "will be crossed through everything, they will not be transmitted only through their own lives." "And how much I remember when the bandits, terrorists in the 1990s asked for only one thing:" Save my life. "And when they reminded them that they took other people's lives, but not one, they began to sob and ask for leniency, - added the chairman of the Investigative Committee.“ But we live in the world in which we live, obey the laws that act. law ".

On August 2, 1996, the last death sentence was carried out in Russia. The last executed was Sergey Golovkin, who raped and killed 11 teenagers. The moratorium on the death penalty in Russia entered into force on April 16, 1997.