The following article has been Google translated from Uktainian.In Belarus, for the first time in 2021, the death penalty was handed down. Viktor Skrundzyk was sentenced to death in Slutsk.
This was reported by the human rights organization "
Viasna".
The decision was made by the Minsk Regional Court of Slutsk on January 15.
Skrundzik and three of his accomplices were found guilty of killing two retirees and attempting to kill an 85-year-old woman.
Two accomplices received 22 and 18 years of strict regime colonies, another - a year of work with the payment of 10% of wages.
Skrundzik was first sentenced to death last year. However, in the fall, the Supreme Court overturned the decision and remanded the case for retrial.
At the same time, human rights activists noted that in Belarus the death penalty is rarely imposed if the panel of the Supreme Court overturns the previous sentence.
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko has previously declared that the death penalty can be canceled only through a referendum.
RBC-Ukraine also wrote that the process of abolishing the death penalty has begun in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan signed a protocol on the abolition of death sentences in late September 2020.
Source: prudentpressagency.com, Dwayne Menzie, January 15, 2021
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