Перспективы применения смертной казни в России в условиях наличия возможности неисполнения своих международных обязательств с «одобрения» Конституционного Суда

Российский судья. 2016. № 11. С. 37–42.

Mikhaylov V.

Recently in Russian society necessity of death penalty usage to criminals, commited most serious crimes, is permanently dramatized. It is excitement and anxious, that these ideas are supported by public authorities, and by those persons with public authorities of the highest level: State Duma deputy, or the head of law ehforcement agency, or the governor. Acording to specifics of the check and balances system in Russia and positions of its power unit representatives, intensified recently, there is a real threat, that death penalty in Russia as a punishment for commiting different crimes can be reactivated. This conclusion is based not only on mentioned above arguments, but also on the legal and political situation in Russia nowadays,  on legislative decisions and on chronological background.

This article is dedicated to analysis of legal groundings for possible death penalty usage as a real punishment for commiting most serious crimes under conditions of permissibility of execution of our international obligations, which are contra Russian Constitution, only after official «approval» of Constitutional Court.

Keywords: Конституционный Суд РФ, ратификация, уголовное наказание, международные обязательства, ratification, Constitutional court, смертная казнь, ЕСПЧ, death penalty, criminal penalty, international obligations, moratorium, ECHR, Protocol № 6, мораторий, протокол №6