The State Duma Committee recommended that the moratorium on the death penalty be preserved

The State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation recommended rejecting the draft resolution of the Communist Party faction, which is invited to President Vladimir Putin to consider the abolition of the moratorium on the death penalty, Kommersant reports . The draft resolution was prepared by them at the end of October.

The Committee rejected the Communist Party of the Communist Party, based on the protocol No. 6 signed by Russia to the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Despite the fact that the protocol has not passed the ratification procedure in the Russian Federation, "in accordance with Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the right of international treaties of 1969, the Russian Federation obliges the Russian Federation to refrain from any actions that would deprive the agreement of its object and purpose."

Parliamentarians came to the conclusion that the abolition of the moratorium on the death penalty has no legal justification.