death_penalty_new.qxd 02-08-27 12:57 Page 33 GEORGIA Number of executions: None. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Juvenile Offenders: Persons who were below the age of 18 at the time when the crime was committed cannot be sentenced to death98. Pregnant women: Women who were pregnant at the time when the crime was committed or at the time when the sentence is pronounced cannot be sentenced to death99. Clemency/Pardon: In a number of cases, persons sentenced to the death penalty have reportedly been fully pardoned or had their death sentences commuted100. SOUTH OSSETIA LEGAL FRAMEWORK Status: De facto abolitionist Scope: The death penalty is a legal punishment for crimes in peacetime and in wartime. The de facto Criminal Code in force in South Ossetia is the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of 1996, which envisages the death penalty for five crimes101. These are premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances, assassination attempt against a state or public figure, assassination attempt against a person administering justice or conducting a preliminary investigation, assassination attempt against a law enforcement officer and genocide102. 98 99 100 101 102 Article 24 of the de facto Criminal Code. Article 24 of the de facto Criminal Code. Information provided by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Abkhazia, Georgia. In 1992 the de facto South Ossetian Cabinet of Ministers issued a decree under which Russian legislation shall be operational. Articles 105(2), 277, 295, 317 and 357 of the de facto Criminal Code. 33