After the terrorist attack in Crocus, a number of activists called for the return of the death penalty

The State Duma and the Federation Council “cannot overcome the decisions of the Constitutional Court” on the issue of the death penalty. Andrey Klyshas, ​​head of the Committee of the Federation Council on Constitutional Legislation, wrote about this in the Telegram channel.

Earlier – in connection with the terrorist attack in the “Crocus City Hall” near Moscow, which became the largest in the number of victims in the history of Russia after the attack on the school in Beslan – a number of politicians and commentators with a pro-Kremlin position called for the return of the death penalty in Russia, in any case in relation to crimes related to terrorism.

Russia now has an indefinite moratorium on the death penalty. On November 19, 2009, the Constitutional Court of Russia made a decision according to which no courts in Russia can issue death sentences anymore. He referred to the provision of the Constitution that the death penalty exists in Russia “until its abolition” and that the legislation as a whole is aimed at its complete abolition.

The current Constitution states that “until its abolition, the death penalty may be established by federal law as an exceptional measure of punishment for a person who commits serious crimes against life, while granting the accused the right to have his case tried by a jury.”

The Criminal Code preserves the possibility of imposing the death penalty for a number of crimes related to the murder of people (at the same time, the article on terrorism does not provide for the possibility of such a punishment), however, in practice, courts do not impose death sentences. The head of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin stated that the restoration of the death penalty is possible only after the adoption of the new Constitution.

After the terrorist attack in “Crocus City Hall”, however, such figures as the leader of the LDPR and former presidential candidate Leonid Slutsky, former president Dmitry Medvedev, leader of the “Just Russia” party Sergey Mironov, as well as, for example, media manager Tina, called for the return of the death penalty Kandelaki or dolgoe vremya, the adviser to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Natalya Poklonskaya, who did not speak publicly for a long time. The head of the “United Russia” faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasiliev, said that the topic of the death penalty would be “deeply and meaningfully worked out” and a “decision corresponding to the mood and expectations of society” would be made.

Recently, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, admitting that Russia does not have the death penalty, actually called for extrajudicial killings of subjects whom he called traitors – Russian citizens fighting on the side of Ukraine. He urged to treat them as armed criminals and, accordingly, kill them.