The World - News from April 10, 1988
The Soviet Union is planning sweeping legal reforms that will abolish capital punishment for all crimes except mass murder, a leading Soviet lawyer said in an interview published in the Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter. Alexander Y. Sukharev, first deputy state prosecutor and former deputy justice minister, gave no details about when the reforms will occur. The Soviet Union allows the death penalty for 18 crimes.
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