The speaker of the upper house of the Russian...
Sergei Mironov"s comments came just two days after two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens more.
"I am negative about calling off a moratorium on the death penalty," Mironov said.
He said that terrorists should receive life behind bars and "rot in prison and die bad deaths."
Mironov also refuted speculation that the upper house had set up a working group to develop amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for terrorists.
The chairman of the Federation Council"s Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues, Anatoly Lyskov, said on Tuesday 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 have provided for capital punishment for staging a terrorist attack that results in multiple losses of life.