After a moratorium on executions in force for 20 years in Kazakhstan, this Central Asian country has abolished the death penalty, according to the presidency this Saturday, January 2.
Conversion to life imprisonment
In a notice published on his official website, the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol relating to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As reported by the French press, the text obliged its signatories to abolish the death penalty on Kazakh territory. Now this death sentence in question became a sentence of life sentence.
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Vast like France 4 times
Since 2003, executions were suspended at Kazakhstan but justice nevertheless continued to sentence defendants to death for crimes such as terrorism. In 2016, an individual killed eight police officers and two civilians in Almaty, the country’s largest city. He had been sentenced to death, but his sentence was therefore converted into life imprisonment.
The Kazakhstan done 4 times France. This former Soviet republic has 18 million inhabitants. In the formerUSSR, alone, the Belarus continues to apply the death penalty on a regular basis.
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