of August 1, 2005 No. UP-3641
About abolition of the death penalty in the Republic of Uzbekistan
The most important task of reforming of judicial system of law of the Republic of Uzbekistan is consecutive step-by-step liberalization of the penal, criminal procedure legislation, system of criminal penalty.
According to accepted in recent years by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "About modification and amendments in Criminal, Criminal procedure codes and the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan about the administrative responsibility in connection with liberalization of criminal penalties", the laws on courts, on prosecutor's office, some other acts of the legislation change classification of crimes, the list of the crimes carried to especially heavy is reduced, alternative types of punishment for the committed crimes not connected with imprisonment, institute of conciliation are entered. Some other the program measures directed to liberalization of system of criminal penalties is accepted.
Profound changes in criminal policy, law-enforcement practice positively affect social and political, criminogenic country situation.
The most important direction of processes of liberalization of judicial system of law, the criminal penalty which are carried out in the Republic of Uzbekistan was gradual narrowing of scope of capital punishment. At the time of independence finding the penal legislation contained more than 30 Articles prescribing punishment in the form of capital punishment. In the Criminal code of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 1994 the number of these Articles was reduced to 13, in 1998 - to 8, and in 2001 - to 4. Now after realization in 2003 of package of measures for liberalization of the penal legislation capital punishment is provided only for making of two crimes - premeditated murder in case of aggravating circumstances and terrorism.
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