INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedevon Wednesday called on Russia to reinstate the death penalty for those suspected of wartime
death.While capital punishment has a legal basis in Russian law, the Kremlin imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 1996 as a
that it was in talks to restore the death penalty.Medvedev served a single presidential term in 2008-2012, allowing Vladimir Putin to
circumvent constitutional term limits
He was appointed to the powerful Security Council in 2020 following an eight-year stint as prime minister.
