Belarusian Execution Method Simulation

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Belarusian Execution Method Simulation

Belarus executed a man on Saturday in connection to a subway bombing in April 2011, his family announced. Vladislav Kovalyov, 25, was charged with helping a childhood friend carry out the bombing, but the human rights organizations say the investigation had flaws.
The confirmation of his execution was offered by a letter sent to his family by the Belarus Supreme Court on Saturday, which Kovalyov’s sister posted on the internet on a Russian social network. She added a message: “They killed Vlad!”
The letter, dated March 16, said that the sentence of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus from November 30, 2011 was carried out. The sister said that the mother was in shock after reading the letter, and that she said: “They killed him. All was in vain.”
The authorities did not confirm the execution, but they rarely do so in cases of capital sentences. Kovalyov had been convicted as accessory to murder in a bombing that killed 15 and wounded 200 in the subway in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Dmitri Konovalov, the man Kovalyov is supposed to have helped plant the bomb, was also sentenced to death, but his execution was not confirmed either.
Western governments and human rights organizations asked Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko to call off execution citing a failure of the prosecution to link the two to the site where the explosion occurred.
Both men admitted to committing the bomb assault, but later Kovalyov said he had been beaten by the security forces to accept responsibility for the bombing. Konovalov never retracted the confession, but was not able to offer any motive for it.
The two were colleagues since school and were factory workers from Vitsyebsk. Months before the bombing, Kovalyov moved to Minsk. Last week, president Lukashenko refused to pardon them, thus dissipating their last hope to escape execution.
Belarus is the only European country to have the capital punishment since the days of the Soviet regime. The execution method has been deemed as barbaric, as the person on death row is being notified of the sentence only moments before it is carried out, and the execution consists in shooting the condemned on the back of their head. The bodies are buried in unmarked graves and are being kept secret from the families.
In an interview in December, Lukashenko said he had reviewed all the death sentences and that he “took to the heart” each one of them.

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