The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation believes that keeping prisoners is too expensive for the budget. He suggested implementing them to save money.
Russia has proposed lifting the moratorium on the death penalty to reduce the burden on the budget where prisoners are kept. Such an initiative was made at the International Youth Legal Forum by the head of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, reports RosSMI.
According to him, there is no need to change the Constitution and hold a referendum for it – an order from Vladimir Putin is enough.
Bastrykin said that in Russia “the number of serious crimes is growing,” and the state is forced to spend a lot of money on the maintenance of prisoners.
“Three meals a day, a two-hour walk… I can’t walk two hours, I don’t have time for that, with a dentist, to see if his tooth hurts… They have to serve them fresh food, support cooks, cut sausage, compote,” Bastrykin’s expense items are listed.
Bastrykin also explained his proposal to restore the death penalty in his desire for humanism.
“I think it would be very humane when a madman kills 70, 80, 100 people and he is sentenced to the highest level of punishment – execution,” he concluded, citing the example of the Crocus terrorist attack City Hall, which killed 145 people.
Let’s recall that in February last year, the Russian Federation proposed to restore the death penalty, at least for “traitors to the motherland” – opposition bloggers and journalists.
Earlier, the Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, allowed the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in Russia, especially for “traitors” and “saboteurs.”
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