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Capital punishment in the Soviet Union

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report stated that in January of that year the Soviet Union for the first time published capital punishment data. It was disclosed that, in 1990, 445 individuals were given the death sentence, 195 people were executed and 29 death sentences were commuted. Execution took the form of a gunshot to the
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was Article 22 of the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Legislation, which stated that the death penalty was permitted "as an exceptional measure of punishment, until its complete abolition".
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decreed the abolition of the death penalty. In February 1918, the death penalty was reinstated. Hangings and shootings were very extensively employed by the
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Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom: Combating Corruption in the Soviet Elite, 1965-90: Combating Corruption in the Soviet Elite, 1965-90
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Capital punishment for crimes against state and public property was reintroduced in 1961. During that year two foreign currency traders,
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of state or public property in especially large amounts". The hijacking of an aircraft became a capital crime in 1973.
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courts passed around 2,000 death sentences every year, of which two-thirds were commuted to prison terms. A 1991
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noted that "60 percent of the 160 persons executed for economic crimes since 1961 were
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back of the head. The death penalty was not applied to minors or pregnant women.
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van den Berg, Ger P. (April 1983). "The Soviet Union and the death penalty".
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Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
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for most of the country's existence. The claimed legal basis for
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The first person to be sentenced to death by a Soviet court was
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was executed in 1984 for "systematically taking big bribes".
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Overview of the use of capital punishment in the Soviet Union
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Ioffe, O. Olimpiad Solomonovich; Janis, Mark Weston (1987).
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Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations
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Kushen, Robert; Schwartz, Herman; Mikva, Abner (1991).
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Index

legal penalty
capital punishment
Western
Soviet
Helsinki Watch
Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
Soviet Russia
Bolsheviks
Red Terror
Alexey Schastny
Admiral
Baltic Fleet
summary executions
aggravated murder
treason
espionage
terrorism
murder
economic crimes
pilfering
Rokotov and Faibishenko
executed
Yuri Andropov
anti-corruption
Minister of Fisheries
smuggling
caviar
West
Technopromexport
Berta Borodkina

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