ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA
Author/s: Alexey P. Lyubimov,
Pages: 65-70
UDK: 343.25(470)
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Abstract: The article is dedicated to the moratorium on death penalty in Russia, as well as to the legal position of the Russian state bodies on that issue. On 19 November 2009 the Constitutional Court of Russia declared that after January 1, 2010 to impose the death penalty in Russia is impossible. Question of the death penalty in Russia for almost fifteen years, and started legal history for Russia 16 May 1996, when President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree “Phasing out of the death penalty in connection with Russia’s entry to the Council of Europe”, in which in accordance with the recommendations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and subject to the provisions of Article 20 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of the temporary nature of the death penalty as an exceptional punishment for especially grave crimes against life, charged with the RF Government.
Keywords: History, moratorium, death penalty, Russia, power, Constitutional Court
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