Russia enshrines Ban on Death Penalty

[Modbert]

Russia's ban on the death penalty will remain when a current legal suspension expires on 1 January, the country's Constitutional Court has ruled.

It said the use of the death penalty was now impossible because Russia had signed international deals banning it.

Russian announced the moratorium in 1996 when it joined the Council of Europe, although it retains capital punishment in its criminal code.

Opinion polls suggest that a majority of Russians back the death penalty.
One recent survey showed that two-thirds of Russians backed the measure.

Discuss.

 

[Oddball]

They probably still need the slave labor.

 

[Modbert]

They probably still need the slave labor.

I was actually thinking along the lines of that. I think a lot of people would rather be killed than go to their prisons.

 

[xotoxi]

Discuss.

Russian tennis chicks are hot!

The last one is not Russian, but rather Polish...but she can speak Russian.

 

[Modbert]

That we can all agree on Xo.

 

[saveliberty]

A death penalty would be a court decision. Taking them behind the court and shooting them would not.

 

[elvis]

Trying to make up for Stalin. It would have to abolished for a couple hundred years, I think.

 

[Modbert]

Trying to make up for Stalin. It would have to abolished for a couple hundred years, I think.

Only a couple hundred?

 

[elvis]

Trying to make up for Stalin. It would have to abolished for a couple hundred years, I think.

Only a couple hundred?

well considering they should start with the Russian oligarchs who ruined their economy, yes.

 

[Kalam]

They've banned capital punishment, they say, as their soldiers continue to wreak havoc and carry out extrajudicial killings in the Caucasus. Russia is corrupt.

 

[L.K.Eder]

no death penalty?

what a backward god forsaken country.

 

[saveliberty]

no death penalty?

what a backward god forsaken country.

Yes, and next month they are going to declare no one is poor either.