Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals...

Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals sentenced to lifetime incarceration, although jails for lifetime imprisonment have place only for 300, others were sentenced to death. He was negative about a future possibility of death sentences for hardened criminals. He excluded a possibility of death sentence even for such felons as Basayev, the military lieutenants of Maskhadov, described as international criminals against humanity.