"There are no more restrictions on the return of the death penalty in Russia, but everything will depend on the criminal situation in the country – the moratorium can be maintained if everything is calm," said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in an interview, RIA News reports..
According to Medvedev, there is a legal position on this subject and a number of decisions of the Constitutional Court, the motive for the adoption of which was Russia’s participation in the conventions of the Council of Europe. “Now (after Russia’s withdrawal from the CE – ed. note), these conventions have lost their force for us,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
In 2009, the Russian Constitutional Court ruled that the courts in Russia could no longer impose death sentences and recognized the impossibility of imposing the death penalty.
He noted that the legal positions of the Constitutional Court “are based on the current legal order, on the current criminogenic situation.” “I proceed from the fact that if everything is calm, then these legal positions can remain the same as they were. But legal positions are also not eternal, if something changes in the life of society, then these legal positions can also be revised,” Medvedev said.