Today, 118 years ago, on April 9, 1907 (February 27, 1907) the death penalty and assassination in Russia continued to rise. On April 9, 1907, in order to prevent the assassination of people who followed the tsar, Russian Prime Minister Peter Storepin announced that he would stop all military death penalty: the policy of the revolutionaries was that a military court would execute a revolutionary and kill a conservative. Over the past seven months, 1,080 people had been executed by a military court and 1,242 were assassinated. It is estimated that 2,000 innocent spectators were also killed. The Prime Minister himself died several times and escaped. The last time was in 1906, when terrorists bombed his villa, which killed 54 people. Over the past seven months, Storepin's actions have angered important provincial governors, who advocated