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KYRGYZSTAN. MINISTER SAYS COUNTRY TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY SOON
September 8, 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. (Sources: RFE/RL, 08/09/2006)
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