TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF THEIR EX TEACHER

Stanislaw Kostsew, 19, and his brother Illya, 21, face being blindfolded and made to kneel then shot in the back of the headCredit: East2west News

DOOMED TO DIE Brothers sentenced to death for brutally murdering ex teacher in Belarus – Europe’s last country with the death penalty

Will Stewart

11 Jan 2020, 0:30Updated: 11 Jan 2020, 0:32

TWO brothers aged 19 and 21 have been sentenced to death for brutally murdering their former teacher in Belarus, the last country in Europe where execution is permitted.

The pair’s final hope of staying alive is to plead for clemency from strongman president Alexander Lukashenko - but he has already publicly branded them “scum”.

Stanislaw Kostsew, 19, and his brother Illya, 21, face being blindfolded and made to kneel then shot in the back of the head by a state executioner.

They were found guilty of stabbing teacher Natalya Kostritsa around 100 times before setting her house on fire.

Unusually, Lukashenko - who has dismissed international human rights criticism over the use of the death penalty - had revealed details of the case even before the guilty verdict.

The pair were exacting revenge for the teacher demanding that social services removed the children from the care of their sister - who Lukashenko branded an “asocial element”.

The Belarus ruler said in December: “Two scum - there's no other name for them since they have been previously convicted of assault - killed their teacher.

“For what? For protecting two of their sister's children?

He said: “They stabbed and cut her all through the night.

“They were killing her all night long.

“She begged, and in the end, they finished her off by dawn despite her pleas.”

The brothers were caught when the teacher’s stolen computer was found in their house.

They confessed stabbing her to death and throwing the knife into the local Sozh River.

In court, the pair pleaded for mercy, claiming they were drunk.

“I don’t know what went wrong,” said Illya.

“Maybe vodka acted like that. I still can’t explain why I killed her.”

Stanislaw - who said he was an accomplice - pleaded in court: ‘Give us a chance.”

But the victim’s mother Vera Gordievitch objected, demanding: “Who will return my daughter?”

More than 400 men have been executed in Belarus since the country became independent with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Luksashenko has been in power since 1994.

The EU and various international organisations have urged Belarus to stop using the death penalty.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10715772/brothers-sentenced-death-belarus-murder-teacher/

BELARUSSIAN HAMMER KILLER EXECUTED BY A GUNSHOT FOR THE MURDER OF TWO GIRLS [DECEMBER 17, 2019]

            Alyaksandr Asipovich was reported to be executed by a gunshot to the back of his head on December 17, 2019 in Belarus. He was convicted of the murder of two girls. He was weeping when he was sentenced to death. One of his victim’s mother supported his execution.

 

Asipovich (pictured during sentencing) confessed to the killings, but has been sentenced to death. In Belarus, those sentenced to death are forced to kneel before being shot by a state executioner in the back of the head

Hammer killer is executed with a gunshot to the back of the head for murdering two women he met at a nightclub in Belarus

·         Alyaksandr Asipovich met two women  in a nightclub in Babruysk, Ukraine 

·         He murdered 27-year-old Alesya Klimava by hitting her 77 times with a hammer

·         Her friend Krystsina Krushkina had been stabbed multiple times moments later

·         Asipovich was executed by a single shot to the back of the head, it is reported

By Will Stewart For Mail Online

Published: 07:37 AEDT, 20 December 2019 | Updated: 08:04 AEDT, 20 December 2019

Belarus has executed a 'beast' convicted of brutally murdering two women who he met at a nightclub.

Alyaksandr Asipovich, 36, had wept in a court glass cage after losing his appeal in May to spare him in Europe's only country still using the death penalty.

A subsequent plea for clemency to strongman president Alexander Lukashenko was also rejected.

Alyaksandr Asipovich, 36, had wept in a court glass cage after losing his appeal in May to spare him in Europe's only country still using the death penalty

Krystsina Krushkina, victim (right) with her sister Irina (left). Krystsina was stabbed 16 times in the head and neck by Asipovich having met him in a nightclub in Babruysk, Belarus 

Alesya Klimava, pictured, was beaten at least 77 times with a  hammer by Asipovich

The murderer was made the kneel and shot in the back of the head at close range, the customary method of state execution, it is understood.

His death in a Belarus jail was confirmed today by Olga Ivanova, senior state prosecutor Mogilev region.

Victim Alesya Klimava, aged 27, was stuck 77 times by Asipovich with a hammer and his fists, his trial heard.

Her friend Krystsina Krushkina, 26, died from multiple stab wounds.

He had met the women at a nightclub and persuaded them to return with him to his apartment in Babruysk city.

Shortly before they were killed, Krushkina had made a desperate call to Belarus police from the man's apartment to say they were barricaded into a bathroom and he intended to murder them.

Asipovich, pictured, wept when his appeal against his execution was rejected. He was shot in the back of the head in jail, according to authorities 

She gave the name of the street but did not know the number of the apartment block.

By the time police tracked down the right address, the women were dead.

Krushkina was killed from 16 stab wounds to her neck and head.

Asipovich, 36, had made plans to dismember their bodies, then dispose of the human remains, but police arrived before he could carry them out, his trial was told.

The killer confessed to murdering the women and showed police how he carried out the killings in a murder reconstruction.

But in his appeal hearing the Belarus Supreme Court he claimed the women had attacked and tried to rob him, prompting gasps from the mothers.

'I am asking to overturn the (death sentence) verdict,' pleaded Asipovich.

   

Kystina' smother, pictured, witnessed Asipovich receiving his death sentence following his conviction for the double murders. He had originally planned to dismember the bodies of both girls and dump them

But grieving mother Nina Klimava told the three judges: 'To me, he is a beast.

'This was such a horrible murder of my girl – 77 wounds.'

She had not been allowed to see her daughter's brutalised face.

'I did not even look at her to say goodbye – her head was smashed to pieces,' she told the court.

'He has not repented.

'He was a beast and he remains a beast.

'The girls called police, they begged for help… but he beat them to death.'

She attacked his plea to live.

'Tell me please, who deserves mercy? This man…..?

'My mother's pain will never stop, even if he is shot. As long as I live I will condemn him.

'I don't wish it to anybody, to face what I had to.

'I think the death sentence verdict is fair.

'The girls suffered so much, they begged him to let them go…'

One judge told her: 'I understand your emotions, please control yourself'.

Asipovich 'wept and asked forgiveness' in a glass court cage on hearing the verdict.

Asipovich had previous convictions for theft, robbery, malicious hooliganism and grievous bodily harm causing death.

  

Asipovich had previous convictions for theft, robbery, malicious hooliganism and grievous bodily harm causing death

Four men were executed in 2018.

No advance details are given on when executions are carried out. 

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https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-executes-man-for-double-murder/30334758.html

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2019/11/belarus-and-poland-stand-against-eu.html

BELARUSSIAN HAMMER KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF TWO GIRLS [JANUARY 9, 2019]

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/01/belarussian-hammer-killer-sentenced-to.html

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/1887472801374677

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