The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, has declared himself in favor of restoring the death penalty for the most serious crimes, an option on which he himself has acknowledged that he disagrees with the Catholic Church and which would move him away from the common European doctrine.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union establishes in its Article 2 that «no one shall be condemned to the death penalty or executed», but Morawiecki has been in favor of reopening the debate in Poland and has warned that the world may be moving hastily towards its eradication.
Thus, he believes that the death penalty «should be allowed» for the most serious crimes, something he said during a citizens’ meeting broadcast via Facebook, according to the newspaper ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’.
The last execution carried out in Poland took place in 1988, for a murder case, and the following year a moratorium came into force that put a ‘de facto’ end to capital punishment. The final legal reform came in 1997, when this type of punishment was abolished from the Penal Code.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
