CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

According to the Article 59/1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “Capital punishment, as an exclusive penalty, may be imposed only for especially grave crimes encroaching on human life”. With the Annex Protocol No.6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, the capital punishment has been abolished except for war and melee threads. The Russian Federation became a member of the Council of Europe on 28.02.1996 and signed Protocol No.6 on 16.04.1997. On 16.05.1996, the Moratorium was an-nounced with the President s decree on the Progressive Reduction of the Capital Punishment in conjunction with the participation of Russia in the Council of Eu-rope. However, Protocol No.6 has not been ratified by the Federal Assembly until today.On 19.11.2009, the Constitution Court was decided to no court cannot give would be able to impose a capital punishment unless the Russian Federation leaves membership of the Council of Europe.