REVISION DEMANDED
SOVIET CRIMINAL CODE
INADEQUATE FOR CLASS
WAR
RIGA, March 21. The Commissar _of Justice, M. Krylenko, addressing a conference of judges at Moscow, demanded urgent revision of the criminal code, which he said was inadequate to deal with the new state of class war.
M. Krylenko appeared annoyed because the code he presented in 1931 had not yet been promulgated. The death penalty, figuring in the 1926 code only as a temporary measure, 'receives a new lease of life in M. Krylenko's code, which demands execution within seventy-two hours after sentence has been passed.
These alterations do not affect the Ogpu (secret police), which usually infiiets a death penalty before publishing the sentence.
M. Vyshinsky, Supreme Prosecutor, who will presumably prosecute the Vickers engineers recently arrested, also demanded the promulgation of the code.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 7
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