The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke on Tuesday in favor of the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most serious crimes, an option in which he recognized differences with the Catholic Church and that would distance him from European norms in this ambit.
The charter of fundamental rights of the European Union (EU) establishes in its article 2 that “no one can be sentenced to death or executed”, but Morawiecki defended the reopening of the debate in Poland and warned that the world can also move . fast for its abolition.
In this way, the head of the ultra-conservative Polish government considered that the death penalty “should be allowed for the most serious crimes”, a position that he expressed in a meeting with the public through Facebook, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza indicated.
The last execution in Poland took place in 1988, in a murder case, and the following year a moratorium came into force that ended in fact to capital punishment.
The final legal reform was adopted in 1997 when this extreme penalty was abolished from the Penal Code.
Source: TSF
