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December 23, 2021 The Senate of Kazakhstan has adopted a law abolishing the death penalty without the derogation concerning the application of the death penalty in time of war. The law approved by the Parliament of Kazakhstan was sent for signature to the country's president, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, who is believed to be taken for granted. If the death penalty is completely abolished, it will not be subject to reinstatement and the country will join a hundred states that have already abolished the death penalty.



Deputy Attorney General of Kazakhstan Aset Chindaliev said that after the signing of the law, the death penalty will be excluded as a form of punishment by 17 articles of the country's criminal code. He added that the most severe measure in this case would be life imprisonment.



It should also be noted that the document provides for the addition to the Criminal Code with the prohibition of parole for people whose death penalty will be replaced by life imprisonment.



An indefinite moratorium on the death penalty has been in place in Kazakhstan since 2004.

It was introduced in December 2003 by Kazakhstan's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

It was assumed that the moratorium would be in effect until the question of the abolition of the death penalty was resolved.