Armenia Promises Abolition of Death Penalty This Year
Armenia Promises Abolition of Death Penalty This Year
Author(s): Anna HakobyanSubject(s): Politics
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Armenia; Council of Europe; Walter Schwimmer; Stepan Demirchian; People’s Party of Armenia; Robert Kocharian; Vazgen Sargisian; Aram Sargisian; Republican Party
Summary/Abstract: Threatened with losing its seat in the Council of Europe, Armenia has said it will remove the death penalty from the criminal code by the end of this year, three years after it first promised to abolish capital punishment.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2003
- Issue No: 07/14
- Page Range: On Line
- Page Count: 1
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
