At a Constitutional Court hearing on the Supreme Court's petition to clarify whether the death penalty may be reinstated in Russia from January 1, 2010, when jury trials will be available in all Russian regions (see "Death Penalty May Return," this blog, Oct. 29, 2009), lawyers representing all branches of government opposed ending Russia's moratorium on executions, instituted in 1997 when Russia signed Protocol No. 6 of the European Convention Rights Convention on ending the death penalty. They argued that Russia is obliged to honor Protocol No. 6 although it has not ratified it, as it undertook to do within three years of signing, and has also not denounced it.
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