Russia’s chief prosecutor proposes ending moratorium on death penalty for terrorism cases

June 28 () –

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrikin, proposed this Friday ending the moratorium on the death penalty in cases of terrorism and mentioned as an example the attack at the end of March at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow. in which almost 150 people were killed.

“We need to consider lifting the moratorium on the death penalty. In some cases it is necessary to apply it,” Bastrikin said during a session at an international legal forum taking place in St. Petersburg, Russian news agency Interfax reported.

The question has been raised, “if in Soviet times the death penalty could be imposed for the murder of two or three people,” why will those responsible for those attacks only receive a maximum of life imprisonment?

Bastrikin defined himself as a “supporter of the death penalty” from a humanist perspective. “I think it is very humane to condemn the maniac who has killed 70, 80, 100 people to capital punishment, to execution,” he said.

In that sense, it is convinced that the return of the death penalty as a punishment is possible only with a presidential decree, unlike what some jurists maintain, including the president of the Constitutional Court, Valeri Zorkin, who point out that It is necessary to modify the Magna Carta.