Man is sentenced to death by
firing squad for beheading an eight-month-old girl in Belarus in cahoots with
the child's mother
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Viktar Sharhel, 48, has been sentenced to death by
firing squad for beating, stabbing and beheading an eight-month-old girl in Belarus
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He was drinking at home with mother Natalya Kolb,
26, when attack happened
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Girl's father Leonid Kolb arrived home to find his
daughter in a pool of blood
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Natalya was also convicted of murder and sentenced
to 25 years in jail
By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline
Published: 19:40 AEDT, 28 October 2019 | Updated:
19:49 AEDT, 28 October 2019
A 48-year-old man has been sentenced to death in
Belarus for beating and beheading an eight-month-old girl.
Viktar Sharhel was sentenced to death by firing squad
for killing baby Anna while mother Natalya Kolb, 26, who was friend with him,
was at home.
Natalya was also convicted of murder and sentenced
to 25 years behind bars, the harshest penalty a woman can receive under
Belarusian law.
Viktar and Natalya had been drinking at their
apartment when father Leonid Kolb came home to find the gruesome scene, local
media reports.
When Leonid walked into the apartment with the
couple's two sons he 'saw his daughter lying in the pool of blood, her head
severed'.
The child had 46 separate injured on her body and
was killed with a kitchen knife.
A neighbour said: 'When Leonid came into the flat
he saw a scene out of the horror movies.
'The ambulance doctor fainted when she came in.'
The baby had been badly beaten before being killed
and the murder was carried out with 'particular cruelty', the closed-door
session of Brest Regional Court ruled.
Neighbours believed the family were 'happy' and
they had recently baptised the child in the Orthodox Church.
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko recently
indicated he would go on approving death penalty verdicts despite hinting he
had personal reservations.
He said this month: 'If the people vote so, we will
abolish it.
'We have had a referendum.
'Do you think I am happy about this death penalty,
considering that I sign it, and then, put crudely, someone is shot?'
But he said the people had decided in a 1996
referendum to permit the death penalty.
'That's how the people have voted,' he said.
'According to the constitution, this is within the
president's purview in any country where the death penalty is used.'
Only men aged between 18 and 65 are executed.
Those facing the death penalty are blindfolded and
forced to kneel. They are then shot in the back of the head.
The method is similar to that used during Stalin's
rule over the USSR.
More than 400 men have been executed in Belarus
since the country became independent with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The EU and various international organisations have
urged Belarus to stop using the death penalty.
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