Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Russia may reinstate death penalty

This should scare the hell out of suicide bombers.

-Am

September 10, 2004

Moscow, Russia, Sep. 10 (UPI) -- Russian lawmakers have proposed reinstating the death penalty as punishment for terrorism, Interfax reported Friday.

Members of the Duma, as the lawmaking body in Russia is known, made the move in the wake of the nation's worst terror attack, the massacre in Beslan last week that killed some 340 people, half of whom were children, said first deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska.

The idea of punishing terrorism with death was raised Thursday at the first meeting of a working group appointed to consider stricter anti-terrorism legislation.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040910-020623-9011r.htm