1947 Abolition of the death penalty in the USSR
70 years ago, on May 26, 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree "On the abolition of the death penalty." However, already on January 12, 1950, he restored it by decree "On the application of the death penalty to traitors to the Motherland, spies, subversive bombers." This was done "at the request of the workers."