The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area in national legislation regulating the scope or application of the death penalty in Belarus.71 Under the Criminal Executive Code of the Republic of Belarus, executions are carried out secretly; bodies of executed persons are not handed over to their families and the place of burial is kept secret.72 Moratorium There is no moratorium on death sentences or executions in Belarus. During the reporting period, the State did not take measures to introduce a moratorium on executions.73 Method of Execution The death penalty is carried out by firing squad.74 Statistics on Death Sentences According to statistics provided by the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Belarus to the OSCE, three individuals were sentenced to death during the reporting period.75 Grigory Antonovich Yuzepchuk (born on 7 June 1969 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, a stateless person) was sentenced to death by the Mogilevskiy Regional Court on 23 April 2013 for killing a cellmate in prison No.4 in Mahiliou, where 71  Belarus Response, op.cit., note 59. 72  Article 175 of the Criminal Executive Code of the Republic of Belarus, 16 July 1999, amended on 13 July 2012. The amendments introduced during the reporting period concern jurisdiction of inter-garrison military courts, see. “Закон Республики Беларусь от 13 июля 2012 года № 417-3”, Национальный правовой интернет портал Республики Беларусь [“The Law of the Republic of Belarus from 13 July 2012 # 417-3”, National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus”], 21 July 2012. <http://www.pravo.by/main.aspx?guid=3871&p0=H11200417&p1=1.> 73  Belarus Response, op.cit., note 59 74  Criminal Code, op.cit., note 67. 75  Belarus Response, op.cit., note 59. 21