The decree was also known as the "Seven Eighths Law" (Закон 'семь восьмых', Zakon "sem' vos'mykh"), because the date in Russian is filled into forms as 7/8/1932 (7 August 1932).
In 1936 the cases of the application of the law were reconsidered (Постановление №36/78 ЦИК и СНК СССР от 16 января 1936 года «О проверке дел лиц, осуждённых на основании постановления ЦИК и СНК СССР от 7 августа 1932 г.
The death sentence was also applied (albeit with provisions for extenuating circumstances in some crimes) "with respect to "kulaks, former merchants and other socially alien elements" who: Ordinary kolkhosniks and non-collectivised peasants (edinolichniks), as well as minor theft on transport, was to be punished with 10 years of imprisonment or less.
[4] In the first half of the year after the announcement of the decree, (by January 1, 1933) 150,000[5] people were convicted on it in the RSFSR; 3.5% of them (782) were sentenced to death.
[2] With the growing social tension due to famine, the number of those convicted in these cases in the RSFSR in the first half of 1933 reached 69,523 people, who mostly (84.5%) were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A year later the Prosecutor General of the USSR Vyshinsky prepared a memo addressed to Stalin, Molotov and Kalinin (July 20, 1936), that the review of cases on the basis of decree was completed.