“I have never spoken about the need for an immediate return of the death penalty.
This is possible only if there are the most weighty reasons for it.
For example, if the public danger of the gravest crimes in the country rolls over - murders first of all - or in wartime, as it happened before, ”he said.
Medvedev stressed that "then there is no need to change the Constitution."
“This is absolutely unnecessary,” said the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.
He added that it is enough to change the very legal positions of the Constitutional Court on the issue of the death penalty.
“And in such conditions, they cannot but change.
And this is well understood by all reasonable people, including those who are specially appointed to protect human rights and freedoms,” he summed up.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that his position on the return of the death penalty in Russia has not changed.
Moscow noted that there are no discussions in the Kremlin about the return of the death penalty.