If you make any exceptions you grant the government a legal loophole for murdering people. That, and court systems are never accurate enough to be able to sentence someone to death.
Lol civilized Europe ! what a joke you guys used to kill everyone who opposed you when you used to colonize don't forget the past buddy . And US were the ones to stop you
When we used to colonize? The US literally was a European colony too, so that makes you the same bearer of your own "criticism". But why look hundreds of years into the past when we talk about current modern day policies? Especially when the US continues to uphold those archaic practices? You just further prove my point that Europe moved on and left its gruesome past behind, while the US further relishes in it, or even wanders backwards. I heard you're big into banning books and taking away freedoms now too.
Russia doesn't have the death penalty: They abolished it to get into the Council of Europe and haven't re-introduced it yet.
...that's de jure, though. De facto is a completely different matter, both when it comes to falling out of windows and prison conditions so bad serving meatgrinder duty in Ukraine is a preferable option.