– Per la Corte Costituzionale la pena capitale viola la Costituzione: si va verso la moratoria nell’unico Paese europeo che ancora usa la pena di morte. (EN)

MINSK, Belarus (AP) _

The court’s chief judge, Grigory Vasilevich, said that the verdict requires President Alexander Lukashenko and the Belarusian parliament to impose a moratorium on the death penalty or completely outlaw it. Andrei Nareiko, a lawmaker who had asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the matter, said that the parliament was likely to suspend or ban capital punishment as early as this spring.

Last year, four Belarusian citizens were sentenced to death on murder charges.