The chairman of the Constitutional Court (CC) Valery Zorkin admits the possibility of the death penalty returning to Russia, follows from his new book published on Tuesday on the court’s website.
According to the head of the Constitutional Court, the introduction in the early 1990s of a moratorium on capital punishment once became a concession to values that are not typical of Russian national legal consciousness, and this issue has not yet been closed, the Kommersant newspaper notes.
However, Zorkin points out, “the fact that the Constitutional Court made a decision that makes it impossible to use the death penalty in Russia at this historical stage of its development does not exclude the possibility of a return to this punishment in the future.”
Let us also recall that at the end of June this year, sociologists of the Levada Center (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) found out that 41% of Russians would restore the death penalty in the country.
It is noteworthy that this indicator has grown significantly over the past 5 years – in 2015, 31% were in favor.
Source: Rosbalt
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