More than half of Russians want to restore the death penalty. Where do the most bloodthirsty citizens live?

In the Russian Federation, a sociological survey was conducted among the population, from which it follows that more than half of the country’s population wants the return of the death penalty. “According to the independent sociological firm Russian Field according to the results of a study on the Russian attitude towards the restoration of the practice of the death penalty, 53% of respondents voted for the idea of ​​restoring the extreme punishment, 39% were against it,” writes the Unian website.

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According to sociologists, the largest number of supporters of the restoration of the death penalty is observed among the inhabitants of small towns and villages.

Men supported this fact more often than women. Older people, on the other hand, less often supported such a measure of punishment, and the least number of its supporters are among financially prosperous Russians – the more property and money a person has, the greater the doubts about the necessity of such a severe punishment.

In response to the question for which crime a person can be punished with death, 57% of Russians named pedophilia, 56% murder and 46% terrorism.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, former President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the March 22 terrorist attack in the “Crocus City” shopping center near Moscow (more than 100 people died there), called for the killing of all those “involved” in the terrorist attack.

Almost immediately, the “Just Russia” party proposed to schedule a referendum on the return of the death penalty on September 8. The chairman of the LDPR, Leonids Sluckis, said that the moratorium on the death penalty, which was adopted in 1996 in connection with joining the Council of Europe, should be stopped. On the other hand, the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslavs Volodins argued that this can also be done without referendums – the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is enough. Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, also supported the death penalty, who believed there were too many abuses, including by the law enforcement system.

On March 31, propagandist Dmitry Kiselev said on the air of the federal channel that this should not be done. Such a move would call into question the first article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the “state governed by the rule of law”, but for the dictator Vladimir Putin “the life of each of his fellow citizens is important”.

Russian Senator Andrei Klisha said that it is impossible to cancel the moratorium on the execution of the death penalty due to the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. At the same time, constitutional law experts believe that Klish’s words are lies.

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