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State Duma deputy from Crimea Mikhail Sheremet, in a comment to RIA Novosti, called for lifting the moratorium on the death penalty for the period of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
In a comment to RIA Novosti, Sheremet said that the death penalty should be introduced for war criminals so that they could not “escape the punitive hand of justice.”
He clarified that by war criminals he means those representatives of Ukraine who carry out attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as well as use chemical weapons. According to him, there is no excuse for this. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the use by Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region of an organic poison of artificial origin – botulinum toxin type “B”.
On May 16, 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued Decree No. 724 “On the gradual reduction of the use of the death penalty in connection with Russia’s entry into the Council of Europe.” The last death penalty in Russia was carried out on September 2, 1996.