Russian parliamentarians call for the return of the death penalty. The death penalty has not been used in Russia since a moratorium in 1996 but has never been officially abolished.
Several executives of Vladimir Putin's regime have increased calls for the lifting of the moratorium on the death Penalty for "terrorists" The death Penalty is no longer applied in Russian since the commitment made by this country in 1996 when it joined the Council of Europe. It was never officially abolished, but when the moratorium expired, the constitutional court considered that the application of theDeath penalty was impossible.