Legal reforms, Kentron TV, part 3

Legal reforms, Kentron TV, part 3


The RA General Prosecutor's Office has drafted a law on "Making changes and additions to the RA Criminal Code" proposing to change the degree of punishment for some types of crimes and to state 20 years as the highest rate of imprisonment instead of 15 years. By substantiating the reforms the General Prosecutor stated, "The maximum imprisonment doesn't correspond to the life imprisonment in our criminal punitive policy. If not 15 years of imprisonment then life sentence. And today we have more than 99 life-termers. In many cases, we fail to individualize the degree of punishment and to apply the correspondent punishment pursuant to the criminal and the degree of danger to the society. In Europe and the countries of CIS the maximum punishment is from 20 to 30 years of imprisonment. In our draft law, 20 years of maximum imprisonment is stated for aggregate of crimes and for aggregate of sentences 25 years which corresponds to the international experience and to the interests of the defendants. In this case life imprisonment will become the strictest means of punishment provided for those types of crimes which can't be corrected".