First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted...

First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted if capital punishment was applicable on Chechen rebel leaders Salman Raduyev and Salaudin Timirbulatov as Russia, being a member of the Council of Europe, had imposed a moratorium on death penalties. Criminals consider life imprisonment to be a much more dreadful punishment than the death sentence, he also said.