MOSCOW, Jul 27 The moratorium on the death penalty in Russia can only be lifted with the adoption of a new of the constitution, Andrey Klishas, chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, said. He referred to the position of the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin, who noted that in Russia there was such a constitutional and legal regime that suggests that constitutional guarantees include the right to not be sentenced to death execution.» Accordingly, the moratorium on the death penalty cannot be lifted … neither by any additional decisions of the Constitutional Court, nor by amendments to federal laws, and even by amendments to the constitution, this situation can be changed. What can change this situation is only the adoption of a new constitution «, the senator said. about whether Russia should return the death penalty and deprivation of citizenship
