The chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said in Izhevsk at a commemorative event devoted to the death of a 13-year-old boy, that he supports introducing the death penalty, stressing that his committee has always adhered to Russian laws.
"I personally speak for capital punishment as a human being," TASS cited him as saying.
He said that he is not afraid of criticism. "Evil must be punished. If one takes away somebody’s life, moreover the life of a child, one must pay for it with his own life," Bastrykin stressed, adding that those who commit such crimes do not deserve a place in the world.
He said that he has worked in the law enforcement bodies since 1975 and seen criminals, who would "step over everything," but "would never step over their own lives." "I remember a lot of cases, when bandits and terrorists in the 1990s asked for only one thing: to spare their lives. But when they were reminded that they took somebody else’s life, they were asking for mercy," Bastrykin said.
