In News Flash
Russia: Prohibition Against Capital Punishment Remains
David Shmueli 19/11/2009 21:29
A ban on capital punishment in Russia will remain in effect for another year, despite the fact that the prohibition legally ends on January 1. Russia's Constitutional Court ruled that a moratorium on capital punishment must remain in effect because of a 1999 moratorium specifying that courts must not hand out death sentences until jury trials were available in all of Russia's provinces. Chechnya is the only province where they have not been introduced.