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Kazakh President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev decided to abolish the death penalty in the country.
Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty after being suspended for nearly 20 years, the country’s president announced.
The statement said that President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev had signed the ratification by Parliament of a protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. A protocol that, among other things, includes the abolition of the death penalty.
The death penalty was suspended in the country in 2003, but courts have continued to sentence people to death in exceptional cases, for example in the case of terrorism.
Ruslan Kulekbayev, who shot dead eight policemen and two civilians in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, in 2016, is one of the people now facing the death penalty.
Kulekbaev’s sentence will instead be life imprisonment.
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