MOSCOW, March 17 Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, member of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society Sergey Obukhov called the LDPR initiative on a referendum on the return of the death penalty a PR, since the country already has conditions for its application, or a temporary rejection of it. Earlier, the LDPR faction announced that it could initiate a referendum on the return of the death penalty for the most serious and condemned by society crimes after the release Russia from the Council of Europe.
10:59 The HRC commented on the possibility of returning the death penalty in Russia «As a PR move (I will comment on the initiative), because there is no need for any referendum for the death penalty … After the jury was created in Chechnya (before that it was created in all other regions), a moratorium on the death penalty de facto and de jure dead. Therefore, there are no obstacles to the revival and application of the death penalty in accordance with the criminal code of this type of punishment. The whole problem is in law enforcement and that the courts do not apply this the measure of punishment that is in the criminal code,» Obukhov told RIA Novosti. Senator Andrey Klishas previously said that today there are at least two decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which indicate that a special constitutional and legal regime has developed in the Russian Federation , which 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, stable new guarantees of the human right not to be subjected to the death penalty. 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 the abolition of the death penalty as an exceptional measure of punishment.
February 26, 12:18 The Federation Council appreciated Medvedev's statement on the possibility of abolishing the death penalty. The Federation does not open the possibility of using the death penalty, including on a guilty verdict issued on the basis of a jury verdict. In Russia, since 1997, there has been an indefinite moratorium on capital punishment. This was one of the main conditions for Russia's entry into the Council of Europe. In 1999 and 2009, the court confirmed this decision, but formally the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did not abolish the death penalty, since only the legislator can do this. The last death sentence in Russia was carried out on September 2, 1996.
March 10, 10:11The Foreign Ministry sees no reason to remain in the Council of Europe
