Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death...

Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death penalty, the head of the country's Constitutional Court said.
One guarantee of this is a Constitutional Court ban on death sentences until jury-based courts are set up in all Russian regions, Constitutional Court Chairman Marat Baglay said during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and World Bank President James Wolfensohn. Currently there are jury-based courts in only nine of Russia's 86 regions.