N. Ossetia head insists on reinstating death penalty for terrorists
VLADIKAVKAZ. Dec 30 (Interfax) - Taimuraz Mamsurov, the head of the Russian republic of North Ossetia, says he will insist on reinstating the death penalty in relation to terrorists in Russia.
"It is necessary to be insistent so that the death penalty in our country be the only, unavoidable, just and legal punishment. Saying that it's not we who gave life to a person and therefore it's not we who can take it is just idle babbling. Everything should be by the law," Mamsurov said at an antiterrorist committee meeting in Vladikavkaz on Monday dealing with the Sunday and Monday bomb attacks in Volgograd.
Mamsurov said his "position is only strengthened from one such incident to another" and he would address the relevant agencies through the parliament.
"We see what is happening with our own eyes and have felt on our own back what this kind of liberalism sparing everyone means," Mamsurov said.
The bomb attacks in Volgograd "should only enrage us, and we should put all our services, from privates to the highest-ranking general, on alert these days," he said.
Speaking at the antiterrorist committee session, Mamsurov also called on the relevant services to strictly follow all directives he had issued in connection with the Volgograd bombings.