Armenian Prosecutor General Arthur Davtyan addressed the Chairman of the Council on Constitutional Reforms, Minister of Justice Karen Andreasyan with a proposal to create constitutional legal mechanisms that will allow the death penalty to persons who committed state treason, the Armenian media reports.
The department noted the need to tighten the punishment for the Stateizer of its serious consequences for the security of Armenia.
“The question has gained special relevance during and after the Second Karabakh war,” the press service of the Prosecutor General of Armenia said.
According to Davtyan, the Prosecutor General’s Office studied Armenia’s international obligations and concluded that the republic does not have direct international legal obligations regarding the absolute ban on death penalty.
“The ban on the death penalty is established by Article 24 of the Constitution of Armenia, according to the third part of which no one can be sentenced to death or subjected to death. This constitutional norm is of an imperative nature, i.e. the ban on the death penalty can be overcome Only through the appropriate constitutional amendments. At the same time, according to Article 76 of the Armenia Constitution, during emergency or martial law, the basic rights and freedoms of man and citizen can be temporarily suspended or subjected to restrictions in the manner prescribed by law – as much as the situation requires – within the limits of international obligations accepted against deviations from obligations during emergency or martial law, ”he said.
It is noted that the death penalty in Armenia was canceled in April 2013 – then the parliament adopted a new draft of the Criminal Code, canceling the death penalty. In the new Criminal Code, which entered into force on August 1, 2013, the exceptional penalty was replaced by a lifelong opinion.