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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 15:22:27 EDT
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO RETAIN DEATH PENALTY FOR PARLIAMENT
GUNMEN. At a special session on 20 June, the Armenian parliament
passed in the first reading, by 66 votes to 15, legislation that
would abolish the death penalty except in exceptional circumstances,
RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The draft bill includes a clause
that permits handing down the death penalty to individuals convicted
of "murders in aggravating circumstances, terrorist acts, and the
rape of female infants." The restriction on the death penalty only
applies to crimes committed after the law comes into force, thus
leaving a loophole for sentencing to death the five gunmen who
murdered eight senior officials in the Armenian parliament in October
1999. LF
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