China News Agency, Nuer Sultan, January 2 (Reporter Wen Longjie) Kazakhstan President Tokayev signed the relevant bill to abolish the death penalty in the country on the 2nd local time, and Kazakhstan officially became a country without the death penalty.
A few days ago, the Lower House of the Kazakh Parliament held a plenary meeting on December 23, 2020, to deliberate and pass the "Bill on the Ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty".
President Kazakhstan’s signing of the bill means that the legal process for the abolition of the death penalty in Kazakhstan has been completed.
Kazakhstan will officially enter the ranks of countries without death penalty, but there are also "special circumstances."
According to Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Treuberti, according to the "Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for the Abolition of the Death Penalty", Kazakhstan will retain the use of those who commit serious war crimes during wartime. The power of death penalty.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 23, 2020, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Hailat Omarov, on behalf of the government of Kazakhstan, signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for the Abolition of the Death Penalty at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The second Optional Protocol.
In this regard, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Treuberti pointed out that all countries that signed the document will promise not to use the death penalty and are obliged to take all necessary measures to abolish the death penalty within their jurisdiction.
He also stated that the abolition of the death penalty is not only a legal issue, but also has great social sensitivity because of its moral and ethical significance. "I believe that the approval of the relevant bill will further enhance Kazakhstan's international reputation."
In fact, Kazakhstan has been "trying out" no death penalty for quite a while.
In December 2003, Kazakhstan's then President Nazarbayev signed a presidential decree to freeze the death penalty clauses in the Kazakhstan Criminal Law and stop the death penalty indefinitely. However, terrorist activities caused deaths and committed serious war crimes. Except those.
According to local media reports, a total of 5 people in Kazakhstan were sentenced to death after the death penalty freeze was promulgated, and a total of 536 people were sentenced to death before the "freezing".
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