Russian MPs are considering lifting the ban on death penalty

Moscow: Recently there was a fatal terrorist attack in a concert hall in Moscow, the capital of Russia. After this, Russian lawmakers are considering lifting the ban on death penalty in the country. “Today there is no other punishment for these scoundrels except the death penalty,” Leonid Slutsky, head of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party, told a plenary session of the State Duma, or lower house of parliament, on Tuesday, referring to the terrorist attack suspects. ” Parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed creating an inter-factional working group to analyze legislation regarding the use of the death penalty and migration policy, Xinhua news agency reported. State Duma committee chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov said that the committee is ready to discuss various proposals and bills to ban the death penalty. But it is important to be patient when taking such decisions. According to the current law, capital punishment (death penalty) is legal in Russia. However. The death penalty was banned after the country joined the Council of Europe in 1996. The Constitutional Court of Russia had banned the death penalty in 1999. Let it be known that terrorists had opened fire in a concert hall in Moscow last Friday. The Russian Investigative Committee said at least 139 people were killed in the terrorist attack.