June 14, 2013 the Homieĺ Regional Court sentenced Aliaksandr Hrunovu to the exceptional measure of punishment – execution by shooting.
Sentenced to death on July 17, 2009 by the Minsk Regional Court.
Sentenced to death by the Hrodna Regional Court on May 14, 2010.
Was sentenced to death by the Brest Regional Court on June 29, 2009.
Sentenced to death by the Mahilioŭ Regional Court on April 23, 2013.
Vladimir Vardanyan (Armenia, EPP/CD), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the abolition of the death penalty, has condemned the handing down in Belarus of a death sentence on Viktar Skrundzik for the murder of two elderly people and an attempt to murder an elderly woman in January 2019.
At a court hearing held today in the city of Sluck, the Minsk Regional Court handed down a death verdict to Viktar Skrundzik on charges of killing two elderly persons and attempting to murder an 85-year-old woman in January 2019. Three other defendants in the trial were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
Today on the World and European Day Against the Death Penalty, the European Union and the Council of Europe reaffirm their opposition to the use of capital punishment in all circumstances and call for the universal abolition of the death penalty. We welcome the continued decline in the use of the death penalty, confirming the overall trend towards universal abolition.