Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty | News | DW
Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has spared convicts sentenced to death in the authoritarian central Asian nation. The former Soviet state has ratified a UN treaty against capital punishment. Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev speaking to his Nur Otan party President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree abolishing the death penalty in Kazakhstan, according to a statement released by his office on Saturday. The new law makes permanent the existing moratorium on state executions in place since 2003, introduced by then-President Nursultan Nazarb...
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