26 March 2009 :
Belarus is moving closer to a moratorium on the death penalty, a senior judicial official said."We have in essence come closer to a moratorium on the death penalty," said Valery Kalinkovich, deputy chairman of the Supreme Court. "The death penalty was carried out on two people in 2008."
Amnesty said in a report that four people were executed last year.
(Sources: Reuters, 25/03/2009)
