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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
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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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