The head of the Constitutional Court admitted the return of the death penalty in Russia

The head of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, believes that Russia can remove the moratorium on the death penalty. In his book “Constitutional Justice: The Procedure and meaning” he wrote that the moratorium was originally “concessions of values” unusual in Russia. Attention to the book was drawn by Kommersant.

Zorkin noted that the introduction of the moratorium was a condition for Russia to join the Council of Europe in 1997. Formally, the death penalty in Russia has not been canceled, the moratorium on its use expired on January 1, 2010. However, in November 2009, the Constitutional Court extended it until the moment when the State Duma ratifies the protocol on the abolition of the death penalty.

The head of the KS does not exclude that Russia will again begin to apply the death penalty in the future. He believes that this issue cannot be closed until people commit intentional killings.

The judge noted that the probability of revival of the death penalty depends on how far we can advance in creating that strong, confident law and order, which will allow us to keep the concession we have done, withdrawal from the requirements of the legal principle of equality. "

In 1997, Russia signed the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights on the Caption of Dead Guidelines in peacetime in order to enter the Council of Europe. De facto death penalty has not been used since 1996, before that criminals have been executed through execution.

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The last execution in Russia was performed on August 2, 1996 in Butyrskaya prison. Such a sentence was passed to the 36-year-old serial killer and pedophile Sergey Golovkin, whose victims were at least 11 teenagers.

• Previously, the death penalty was completely canceled in Kazakhstan. It was provided as a punishment under the 17ths of the Criminal Code of the country, including the attempt on the life of the first head of state Nursultan Nazarbayev.
• The moratorium on the death penalty operates in most CIS countries. The only country where execution is applied is Belarus, and humane methods in the legislation are not provided. Since 1990, more than 400 sentenced were shot in Minsk.
• Most often, execution is used in China. According to Amnesty International, more than 15 thousand people are executed here annually. Often - for corruption.
• The death penalty is provided for in the legislation of 58 countries, but in most of them it does not execute it.

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