The Duma's deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska of the pro-president...

The Duma's deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska of the pro-president United Russia party, spoke out in favour of capital punishment for those found guilty of terrorism. "I believe that such crimes as terrorism should entail the death sentence," she told a news conference in Moscow. Other Russian politicians had spoken out against the moratorium on the death penalty, as terrorist attacks increased in Russia and Moscow. Dmitri Rogozin, head of the nationalist Rodina party, also backed the death penalty for terrorists.