President of Kazakhstan signed a law on cancellation of death penalty

President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev signed a law on the abolition of the death penalty. About this December 29 reports Tengrinews.kz.

The moratorium on the death penalty was adopted in the country in 2003. In the early 2021st Kazakhstan ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which implies the final refusal to the highest penalty.

Then in Parliament approved the draft law on the abolition of the death penalty, which, however, provided for the opportunity to apply it in wartime. Tokayev criticized the document, calling him half. As a result, on December 23, the Senate of Kazakhstan adopted a law on complete cancellation of the death penalty.