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Partito Radicale Nikolaj - 15 gennaio 1998

YELTSIN WILL NOW PERSONALLY DECIDE THE FATE OF THOSE IN THE DEATH ROW

>From RIA Novosti

Commersant Daily

January 13, 1998

By Yuri SENATOROV and Yulia PAPILOVA

President Boris Yeltsin has signed the law on amendments to the Penitentiary Code of the Russian Federation, thereby actually precluding the execution of capital punishment. From now on, the President will personally decide the fate of those in the death row. A year ago Yeltsin promised the Council of Europe to abolish capital punishment. About the same time the Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments, or GUIN, asked him to allocate 500 billion rubles a year for the upkeep of the prisoners convicted to death. It has not received the money thus far.

The last execution took place on August 2, 1995, according to GUIN. Formally, however, the execution of capital punishments was suspended only in spring 1996. The decision to do so was linked to Russia's plans of joining the CE.

According to GUIN tallies, some 700 people are in the death row at present. Under the existing rules, persons sentenced to death should be kept in one- or two-man cells separately from other prisoners. They should have their daily walks in the open air for no longer than one hour and also separately from other prisoners. Deputy chief of the GUIN staff Vyacheslav Bubnov says that prison authorities are to find the persons convicted to death such jobs "which would help them not to go mad". However, these rules are not always observed.

Last Sunday, President Yeltsin signed the final version of the law on the amendments to the Penitentiary Code, in keeping with which the fate of each person sentenced to death will be decided by the President personally. The only difference between the old and the amended law is that under the former the President pardoned only those convicts who appealed to him, whereas under the new one he will pardon all without exception. The new law, says Anatoly Pristavkin, the writer who heads the commission for pardon, will allow the President to keep Russia's international obligations under control.

GUIN's Bubnov told Commersant Daily that by the year 2000 the number of persons sentenced to death will be about 5,000.

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Johnson's Russia List

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14 January 1998

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