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    Russia may reinstate death penalty for terrorism

    The State Duma of the Russian Federation proposes to abolish the moratorium on death penalty for terrorists.

    This initiative was voiced by deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, Vadim Solovyov.

    The MP suggested reinstating death penalty for individuals convicted of acts of terrorism. He believes that the Russian anti-terror legislation has to be tougher; terrorists need know that they will face death penalty for their crimes. According to Solovyov, lifting the moratorium on death penalty will reduce the terrorist threat in Russia.

    According to him, the Russian government rejects the proposal on the basis of some incomprehensible Western values.

    In May of this year, the State Duma (the Russian Parliament) rejected a similar bill.

    http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia...ath_penalty-0/

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    Remembering the deadliest executioner/ mass murderer in history

    The Man Who Personally Executed Over 7000 People in 28 Days, One at a Time

    Today I found out about Vasili Blokhin, the “Most Prolific Executioner” of all time, according to the Guinness World Records.

    Born to a Russian peasant family in 1895, as a young man he quickly earned a reputation for “chernaya rabota”, or “black work”, while serving in the Tsarist army during World War I- gaining recognition from Stalin himself for his covert assassinations, torture, and executions. Blokhin quickly rose through the ranks of Russia’s secret police at the time—the NKVD—eventually becoming the head of the Kommandatura department.

    The members of the department were approved by Stalin and took orders directly from him. Under the guise of other positions, Vasili Blokhin was officially a commandant of a prison- the department carried out black work missions specific to furthering Stalin’s cause. Blokhin oversaw many mass executions and executed several high-profile individuals himself, including Mikhail Tukachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and two of the former NKVD chiefs under whom he had previously served.

    But Blokhin’s most infamous deed was performed at the bloody Katyn Massacre. In 1939, just over two weeks after Germany invaded Poland, Soviet forces entered the eastern side of Poland. Though they didn’t officially declare war, they captured over 20,000 Polish officers and detained them in Soviet prison camps. On March 5, 1940, Stalin himself ordered the executions of all Polish officers, who would then be dumped in mass graves.

    Over a twenty-eight day period, Vasili Blokhin personally performed over 7000 of these Polish executions at Katyn. Usually, the executions would take place from dusk til dawn, with Blokhin preferring to work at night for these types of tasks. Blokhin would work nearly uninterrupted each night, reportedly killing a prisoner about every three minutes, averaging around 300 executions per night.

    http://www.todayifoundout.com/index....one-at-a-time/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Russia needs to make an exception to the moratorium.


    Svetlana Sapogova bled to death following the horrific attack.


    Danil Cheshko is alleged to have raped and murdered a woman after offering her a lift home from a funeral.


    Woman dies after being raped with car jack that was opened inside her

    By Richard Hartley-Parkinson
    Metro

    A mother-of-two has died after her womb was almost torn out by her alleged rapist, according to reports.

    Sveltana Sapogova, 41, is said to have died when she was raped with a car jack that was then opened inside her.

    Police arrested Danil Cheshko, 19, who is alleged to have carried out the attack after offering her a lift home from a mutual friend’s funeral, according to reports in southern Russia.

    It is believed that he confessed to police that he had carried out the violent attack, leaving her for dead in the car.

    She was found by a passerby who called police and paramedics, but nothing could be done to save her after she lost so much blood.

    A friend of the victim called Nadezhda said: ‘The car jack was found on the back seat of the car next to Svetlana. ‘It was all covered in blood. Now it is being examined by police.

    Svetlana lost 3 litres of blood. ‘Her crotch was ripped out. He left her in the car to die and fled.

    Doctors made surgery all night through, and twice resuscitated her.

    ‘He was caught immediately and he confessed everything.’

    The victim had two children, a girl aged 13 and a boy, 11.

    Cheshko is being investigated for causing death by inflicting serious harm to health or negligence and also sexual violence.

    http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/05/woman-...7/?ito=cbshare
    Last edited by Moh; 02-06-2018 at 04:28 AM. Reason: Lacked headline, photos and source info. Had to delete link to unrelated article. Plus, had to delete a caption with no photo

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    Russia Quits Europe’s Rule of Law Body, Sparking Questions Over Death Penalty

    The Moscow Times

    Russia has announced it will withdraw from Europe’s oldest rule-of-law body, the Council of Europe, sparking questions over the future of the Kremlin’s moratorium on the death penalty.

    The Kremlin placed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, which remains enshrined in Russian law, as a condition of Council of Europe membership in 1996.

    The Council of Europe suspended all Russian representatives from participation the day after President Vladimir Putin announced an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. The decision did not affect the European Court of Human Rights.

    Former President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia’s suspension from the Council of Europe was a "good opportunity" to reinstate the death penalty.

    The move would also ban Russians from filing claims with the European Court of Human Rights.

    "Russia will not participate in the transformation of the oldest European organization into another platform for invocations of Western superiority and narcissism by NATO and its obedient follower, the EU," Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

    "Let them enjoy talking to each other without Russia."

    The Foreign Ministry’s strongly worded two-paragraph statement did not indicate when Russia intended to withdraw from the 47-member organization.

    Russia’s membership will expire at the end of fiscal year 2022, Senator Konstantin Kosachev, deputy chairman of the upper house of Russian parliament, told state media.

    Kosachev said Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe entails a denunciation of its charter and the European Convention on Human Rights, which binds member states to abolish the death penalty.

    The Kremlin echoed Kosachev’s assertion that Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe entails withdrawal from "all of its institutions."

    Human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe requires a new law to pass in parliament, after which its withdrawal would be finalized on Jan. 1, 2023, at the earliest.

    "Only the committee of ministers can expel Russia earlier," Chikov wrote on his Telegram channel.

    Meanwhile, Chikov said the European Court of Human Rights will still be required to hear the estimated 15,000 claims filed by Russian nationals, as well as those lodged before Russia’s formal exit from the Council of Europe.

    Chikov accused Russia’s Foreign Ministry and Senators Kosachev and Andrei Klimov of "making waves."

    He added that Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe does not automatically reinstate capital punishment.

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/...penalty-a76854
    "If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty

    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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    Russia tried to troll the United States on human rights by repealing the death penalty; but people regarded that at best with indifference, and at worst with irony.

    This propaganda already failed when Stalin abolished capital punishment in 1947 — for the fourth time in Russian history — causing him to reinstate it in 1950.

    Reinstating and enforcing the death penalty for a fifth time to troll the European Union would work well more.

    We are already observing how euroligarchs are annoyed by Belarus, which alone precludes them to trumpet that the European continent is death penalty-free.

    That would also contribute to show Russia now as a superpower at the same level as the United States and China.

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...231#post148231

    And not a subject of the so-called European "court of human rights", which banned life imprisonment without parole for all crimes.

    The current Russia abolitionism is an embarrassing legacy of the Yeltsin years, and a positioning alienating most of its foreign allies, including the Western citizens it wants to convince it is their partner or their leader against wokeness.
    Last edited by Steven AB; 12-29-2022 at 09:20 PM.
    "If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty

    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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    Would it be appropriate to count executions carried out by the Defacto military forces who hold areas in Ukraine like Donbass and Luhansk? I'm seeing videos of the DPR officials executing Azov members they deem liable for indiscriminative artillery shelling of civilian areas.

    I understand the Chechens in the north are doing the same as well.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    British fighters Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner sentenced to death by Russian-backed court

    By Nataliya Vasilyeva
    The Telegraph

    Two British men have been sentenced to death in a fast-track trial in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.

    Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were captured by the separatists in the besieged city of Mariupol in April.

    They were accused of fighting as mercenaries despite the fact both were serving full-time in the Ukrainian military, and had lived in the country for several years.

    The verdict raises the stakes in a stand-off between the West and Russia, which has been collecting Ukrainian fighters for a possible prisoner exchange.

    The "Supreme Court" of separatist-held Donetsk region found the two British men and a Moroccan student guilty on Thursday and sentenced them to death, Russian news agencies reported from the court.

    Downing Street released a statement saying the government was "deeply concerned" by the sentences handed to the two British men.

    Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, said: "I utterly condemn the sentencing of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner held by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine. They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgment with absolutely no legitimacy. "

    Conservative MP Robert Jenrick said: "This disgusting Soviet-era era show trial is the latest reminder of the depravity of Putin’s regime.

    "The Russian Ambassador should be summoned to the Foreign Office to account for this egregious breach of the Geneva Convention. No one should think they can treat British citizens like this and get away with it."

    Russian lawmakers last month considered a bill that would prevent those they call “Nazis” from being released in prisoner exchanges with Ukraine.

    On Wednesday, pundits on a prime-time TV show in Russia discussed different ways of execution for Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner, with TV host Vladimir Solovyov saying that the death sentence for the men would be “a very big problem for Boris Johnson.”

    The trial for the three men started on Tuesday and was held behind closed doors.

    Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner were seen in the defendants’ dock earlier this week in their first public appearance in almost two months, after they were captured by the Russian army while serving alongside Ukrainian marines in Mariupol.

    Mr Aslin, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, was last seen on Russian state TV during an interrogation where he looked battered and appeared to slur his words. He had bruises and a cut on his forehead.

    Footage released on Tuesday by the separatists’ "Supreme Court" showed the three men in a metal cage in court.

    Mr Aslin, who appeared to have lost a lot of weight, replied in Russian "Yes, I do", when a judge asked him if he understood the indictment against him.

    Mr Pinner also looked haggard and thin, and replied "yes" to the same question.

    The two Britons were standing trial along with Ibrahim Sadun, a Moroccan student from the same Ukrainian unit that surrendered in Mariupol after fighting the Russian army for 48 days.

    Russian state media has persistently accused the West of sending mercenaries to fight in Ukraine, so a high-profile trial of foreign fighters may prove to be a valuable propaganda tool.

    Mr Aslin’s brother refused to comment when contacted by the Telegraph.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...death-russian/

    They have one month of appeal before an execution can be carried out.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    From what I've been reading on Russian telegram it seems that Donetsk and Luhansk both officially announced they won't execute any POWs until 2025. So, it seems this was just a show sentence.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    The separatist moratorium was set to expire in 2025, but recently they announced lifting it in advance and having a firing squad site for executions. Nevertheless, condemned foreigners are more likely to be negotiation tools than anything else.
    Last edited by Steven AB; 12-29-2022 at 09:20 PM.
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    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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    Russian separatists release 10, including 2 US veterans

    By JAY REEVES
    The Associated Press

    Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces were among 10 prisoners, including five British nationals, released by Russian-backed separatists as part of a prisoner exchange mediated by Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.

    Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border June 9. They had traveled to Ukraine on their own and became friends because both are from Alabama.

    Their families announced their release in a joint statement from Dianna Shaw, an aunt of Drueke.

    “They are safely in the custody of the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the states,” the statement said.

    Shaw said both men have spoken with relatives and are in “pretty good shape,” according to an official with the U.S. embassy.

    The Saudi embassy released a statement saying it helped secure the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh were part of the group.

    The United Kingdom said five British nationals had been released, and lawmaker Robert Jenrick said one of them was Aiden Aslin, 28, who had been sentenced to death after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.

    “Aiden’s return brings to an end months of agonising uncertainty for Aiden’s loving family in Newark who suffered every day of Aiden’s sham trial but never lost hope. As they are united as a family once more, they can finally be at peace,” Jenrick tweeted.

    British Prime Minister Liz Truss heralded the news on social media.

    “Hugely welcome news that five British nationals held by Russian-backed proxies in eastern Ukraine are being safely returned, ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families,” she tweeted.

    Moroccan media reported that the released prisoners included Brahim Saadoun, 21, who was sentenced to death in June after being accused of terrorism and trying to overturn the constitutional order. Captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, the court claimed he was a mercenary, while Saadoun’s father said he had enlisted in Ukraine’s regular army.

    Russian state television had previously said Drueke and Huynh were being held by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The U.S. does not recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and has no diplomatic relations with them, making it necessary for others to lead efforts to get the men released.

    Drueke joined the Army at age 19 after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he believed he could help Ukrainian fighters because of his training and experience with weapons, Shaw said previously. Drueke left in mid-April.

    Druke’s mother received a call from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning and an embassy worker handed the phone to the man, Shaw said.

    “He got on the phone and said, ‘Hi mom, it’s your favorite child,’” she said.

    Huynh moved to north Alabama two years ago from his native California and lives about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Drueke. Before leaving for Europe, Huynh told his local newspaper, The Decatur Daily, he couldn’t stop thinking about Russia’s invasion.

    “I know it wasn’t my problem, but there was that gut feeling that I felt I had to do something,” Huynh told the paper. “Two weeks after the war began, it kept eating me up inside and it just felt wrong. I was losing sleep. ... All I could think about was the situation in Ukraine.”

    Huynh told his fiance he wants a meal from McDonald’s and a Pepsi-Cola when he returns home, Shaw said.

    The two men bonded over their home state and were together when their unit came under heavy fire. Relatives spoke with Drueke several times by phone while the two were being held.

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-uk...67e399ce944c8c
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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