Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 21, 2000
Armenia

Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed...

Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed support for the demand by the CE to repeal the death penalty as capital punishment in Armenia

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Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed support for the demand by the CE to repeal the death penalty as capital punishment in Armenia. "Statistics show that most people sentenced to life imprisonment petition to replace this sentence with the death penalty, and that they often commit suicide, so it is not known which punishment is the more severe," the Minister said.
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  • (Sources: BBC, 23/02/2000)