Putin said that his position on the return of the death penalty has not changed

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with members of the Human Rights Council, said that his position on lifting the moratorium on the death penalty has not changed.

“As for the death penalty. Quite recently, the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin, speaking at the congress of judges, spoke about this. Responding to requests from those who advocate the return of the death penalty, he said that for this it would be necessary to change the Constitution, so my position in this sense has not changed,” the president said (the meeting was broadcast on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel).

November 29 at the X All-Russian Congress of Judges Valery Zorkin declaredthat Russia has always supported UN resolutions on the inadmissibility of the death penalty. Citizens of the Russian Federation, according to him, received the right not to be sentenced to death thanks to the decisions of the Constitutional Court in 1999 and 2009.

Vladimir Putin on September 14, 2007 at a meeting with members of the Valdai Club named the death penalty “meaningless and counterproductive”. Two months later, the president, commenting on the terrorist attack in Boston, admitted that sometimes his “hand itself reaches for a fountain pen to sign some documents on the return of the death penalty, to ask deputies about it.”

Erdni Kagaltynov