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Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is legal in 36 states of the US and is used for certain crimes, usually homicides


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Byline: Daily Star Staff Summary: Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying that a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions.
The Russian Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered that the death penalty cannot be applied in Russia even after January 1 when a moratorium expires.
The Ak Jol parliamentary faction voted against draft law on Kyrgyzstan's joining the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution 44/128 of 15 December 1989.
 
 
 
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