The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, approved the law on the abolition of the death penalty, adopted earlier by the Senate of the republic. This was reported by the Tengrinews.kz news agency.
Initially, it was assumed that the possibility of using capital punishment would be retained for especially grave war crimes as an exceptional measure, but back in November of this year, the head of state advocated the complete abolition of the death penalty. At the same time, the new law excludes the possibility of parole for persons sentenced to death – from now on, imprisonment is provided for them as the highest measure.
Back in 2003, Kazakhstan approved a moratorium on the abolition of the death penalty, and at the beginning of 2021 ratified the second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which implies the final renunciation of capital punishment.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) Valery Zorkin admits the possibility of a return to “supreme measure” in Russia in the future. This is stated in his book published on the KS website.
Source: Rosbalt
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