In Russia, they say that the moratorium of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the death penalty is “not holy scripture”; and therefore court decisions may change.
Russia may revise the moratorium on the death penalty, “if something changes in the life of society”, because after the exclusion of the Russian Federation from There are no restrictions left by the Council of Europe for the resumption of the stratum.
This was stated by the ex-president of the Russian Federation and the current deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with RIA Novosti.
“International grounds have disappeared, there are internal legal positions of the Constitutional Court. These legal positions are based on the current legal order, on the current crime situation. I assume that if everything is calm, these legal positions can remain the same as they were. But legal positions are also not eternal, if something changes in the life of society, then these legal positions can also be revised,” Medvedev said.
He also added that the moratorium of the Constitutional Court of Russia on executions is not “holy scripture” and therefore decisions vessels may change.
Recall that earlier the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia Valery Zorkin allowed the possibility of the return of the death penalty in the country. In particular, in the book, Zorkin expressed the opinion that the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in 1996 was a concession to those values that are not really characteristic of Russian legal consciousness. The judge noted that the socio-cultural situation in Russia differs markedly from the state of affairs in the old democracies of Europe, but the Constitutional Court is ready to meet halfway and overcome the stereotypes of mass consciousness.
