>But, but the Russians will just make the pirates mad and they’ll attack more Russian ships! /s
Right, let’s see how many Russian ships get attacked after this. Russians know how to deal with this.>
I bet it was first and the last.
>Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. I knew all members of the EU are no-death-penalty but Russia’s not part of that club.>
Technically, Russia is a member of European Counsil and has a bid to join EU. Officially EU considering it as a future member, not factually for a known reason.
Anyway, due to a bid Russian judicial system in under full EU jurisdiction. Every desicion of any Russian legal official including for example a traffic ticket from Siberian highway patrolman and or a treason verdict by jury in Moscow Court may be cancelled or ruled out by European Court in Brussels. Russians officially has a ban for a death verdicts for that reason. Anyway, Russian prisons or correction labor camps are far below any European standard. Sentenced for life there are among the most vocal opponents of death ban. Most of them prefer execution over a life in Gulag. So does African pirates for sure, facing building a railway or AF base among polar bears in a middle of nowhere at -60C.
It’s true that Russia is a member of the Council of Europe and currently has a moratorium on the death penalty (though it remains on the statute books). However it has no bid to join the EU and thus Russian laws or court verdicts cannot be challenged or affected in any way by Brussels (can you REALLY imagine the Russians standing for that???). Trials by jury were also largely abolished by Putin in 2008: