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[Rick Halperin]

May 27



RUSSIA:

Deputy seeks law on Russia's rejection of death penalty


State Duma legislative committee chief Pavel Krasheninnikov has called on
the lower chamber of the Russian Parliamentary to adopt a bill that will
confirm the abolition of the death penalty in Russia.

"I hope that the current Duma will finally pass appropriate legislative
amendments that would effectively abolish the death penalty,"
Krasheninnikov told Interfax on Friday.

A variety of death penalty moratoriums are active in Russia today, the
deputy said. "The first moratorium was imposed by a resolution of the
president of the Russian Federation to ban the execution of the death
penalty. The 2nd one was imposed by the Constitutional Court to prohibit
death penalty verdicts until all constituents of the Russian Federation
can organize jury trials," he said.

(source: Interfax)