Lukashenka's Belarus doesn’t intend to renounce death penalty
20- 21.01.2009, 13:01
The Prosecutor General Ryhor Vasilevich finds death penalty in Belarus justified at this point.
“At this point I find existence of such measures justified, primarily, as a preventive measure,” R. Vasilevich stated at a press-conference in Minsk on Wednesday.
He noted that “every day the number of death sentences is decreasing. It is a stable tendency.” He specified that in 2008 1 death sentence was pronounced in Belarus for a criminal who raped and killed a 9-year boy in Homel.
R. Vasilevich noted that before that that person was convicted of crimes related to sexual violence twice earlier.” “He left two underage alive, and the third was assassinated,” the Prosecutor General specified.
As we have informed, the requirement to abolish death penalty in Belarus has been pronounced by many international organisations. This requirement was included into the last resolution of the European parliament on the situation in our country. Death penalty is abolished in all countries of the EU.
