The upper house of the Russian parliament...

"This is our reaction to yesterday"s tragic events in Moscow," Anatoly Lyskov said.

On Monday, two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow subway, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 70. The blasts ripped through the packed Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations of the Sokolnicheskaya line with an interval of about 40 minutes in the morning rush hour.

Lyskov said his committee was working on a draft law which would introduce death penalty for terrorists. The current law provides for life imprisonment for terrorist acts leading to the death of a single individual. The new amendments would provide for capital punishment for staging a terrorist attack that results in multiple losses of life. It is unclear how an amendment stipulating the death penalty for such crimes would correlate with a moratorium on the death penalty prolonged in November 2009 by the Russian Constitutional Court.

The death penalty was de-facto abolished in Russia in 1996. The country

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