11 September 2006 :

Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Justice Minister says his country will soon abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment.
Addressing reporters in Bishkek, Sergei Zubov said a draft bill to abolish capital punishment had already been sent to parliament. The current maximum jail sentence that a Kyrgyz court can hand down is 30 years. Kyrgyzstan introduced a moratorium on executions in 1998.
Zubov said the Justice Ministry was seeking to build a new prison facility for 167 inmates currently on death row.