Romanian Court Keeps Death Penalty For Spy Who Fled To The U.S. In ’73

Constantin Rauta, a former officer of Romania’s Foreign Intelligence Department under the Ceausescu regime, sentenced to death by the Bucharest Military Court in 1974, didn’t have his sentence overturned Friday at the High Court of Justice.

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Romanian Court Keeps Death Penalty For Spy Who Fled To The U.S. In ’73

The court gave a final ruling rejecting Rauta’s appeal to the death penalty.
 
His lawyer told MEDIAFAX the “battle” doesn’t end here, and the Romanian court’s decision will be taken up with the European Court for Human Rights, saying it is unacceptable for a person to have a death sentence in the year 2009.
 
Romania abolished the death penalty in 1990, after the fall of the communist regime.
 
In 1973, while he was being trained as a spy, Rauta went to New York and turned himself in to American authorities and requested political asylum.
He was tried by the Bucharest Military Court for treason and fleeing the country, and was sentenced to death in 1974 and all his property was confiscated.
 
Rauta found out he had been sentenced to death in 2000, when he requested the restitution of his apartment that had been confiscated by communist authorities.

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