MOSCOW, March 10 Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation Andrei Klishas believes that the Cabinet «I believe that the government should submit to parliament a draft law on the denunciation of agreements on Russia's participation in the Council of Europe as soon as possible,» he told RIA Novosti. 12:58 The Council of Europe ignored Russia's arguments about Donbass, Tolstoy said The senator recalled that today there are at least two decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which say that a special constitutional and legal regime has developed in the Russian Federation that does not allow the use of the death penalty. He stressed that as a result of a long moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Russia and stable guarantees of the human right not to be subjected to the death penalty have been formed. A constitutional and legal regime has also developed, within which, taking into account the international legal trend and the obligations assumed by the Russian Federation, an “irreversible process” is taking place aimed at abolishing the death penalty as an exceptional measure of punishment. Including, the senator said, according to According to the rulings of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the introduction of trials with the participation of jurors throughout the Russian Federation does not open up the possibility of applying the death penalty, including on a guilty verdict issued on the basis of a jury verdict.
