Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called...

Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called on politicians to give up "populist slogans" calling for the death penalty to be restored. Such slogans "have no grounds from a legal point of view," Mironov said. "Apart from the president's decrees, under which for all those sentenced to this measure of punishment, the death penalty is replaced with life imprisonment or 25 years in jail, there is the decree of the Russian Constitutional Court of February 2, 1999," the ombudsman recalled.
Under this decree, a person charged with a crime punishable by death "should have the right to have his case heard by a jury." "Until the jury is introduced in the entire territory of the Russian Federation, no one can be sentenced to death," Mironov said.