GEORGIAN CONSTITUTION CLARIFIED ON DEATH PENALTY

December 14, 2006: MPs voted 173 to one to pass constitutional amendments that state explicitly that the death penalty and torture are banned in Georgia.
Although the death penalty and torture are banned in Georgia, certain articles of the constitution were ambiguous in this regard, MPs said.
Speaker Nino Burjanadze said that parliament was unanimous on the issue, adding that the only vote against could have been the result of a technical error. (Sources: Kavkas-Press via BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, 14/12/2006)