Ukrainian Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov has said Ukraine should not reintroduce the death penalty as a capital punishment.
"From my point of view, life imprisonment is a less severe punishment than the death penalty," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
At the same time, victims are likely to seek the reintroduction of the death penalty in the country, he said. "But from the point of view of social humanism the death penalty is unacceptable," Mohyliov said.
The Ukrainian parliament formally abolished the death penalty in 2000.
On December 18, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the first historic resolution on the global moratorium on the death penalty. This was a breakthrough in legal thought and world practice.