Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Bahanets that each...

Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Bahanets that each year the number of premeditated and group murders has been on the rise since the moratorium on capital punishment was announced in Ukraine. He said that criminals have become conspicuously more aggressive after the ban on capital punishment has been announced in Ukraine. Moreover, the number of group killings is on the rise too: from 202 in 1999 to 247 in 2001, while 85 group murders have been committed already this year. The ugliest murders include the killing of the Buryane family in Odessa Region and the killing of his entire family by a teenage boy in Luhansk Region. Also Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Bahanets said. He added that Ukraine rushed to abolish the death penalty. Since 1917 we have abolished the death penalty several times but later come back to this issue again and reinstituted capital punishment. Therefore, I think, sooner or later we will come to this and some people will appear who will claim responsibility and initiate this issue [reinstitution of the death penalty].