"Secrets of investigation" disclose details about personality of latest death convict
The program "Secrets of
investigation", broadcast at the 1st channel of the Belarusian
TV on 1 June, was dedicated to the new death convict.
Bear in
mind that on 30 April the Mahiliou Regional Prosecutor's Office
issued a laconic information about the issue of a death verdict to Ryhor Yuzepchuk, born in 1969 in the Zhymomyr region (Ukraine),
homeless, with prior convictions (including for murder), serving a
25-year term for a murder.
Yuzepchuk took the life of his
cell-mate, who lost his life to him in a play of dominoes. The
peculiarity of the crime is that it was committed in the Mahiliou
prison #4.
The video,
which can be viewed at the website of the Belarusian State TV and
Radio Company, reveals new details of the case, but gives no answer
to the question how the murder could be happen in this prison, in the
conditions of an especially strict supervision over the
convicts.
"The death verdict, issued by the Mahiliou
Regional Court, hasn't entered into legal force yet", commented
human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich. "Theoretically, a
death convict can appeal the verdict at the cassation institution –
the college board on criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the
Republic of Belarus. The verdict will enter into legal force
immediately if the appeal is turned down. After this only a review
appeal can be filed to the head of the Supreme Court of the Republic
of Belarus or the Prosecutor General, as well as a clemency petition
to A. Lukashenka. However, as the experience shows, Yuzepchuk hardly
has any chance to save his life. Even the special protective
mechanisms of the UN are unable to stop this death line."
