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Poland's rightists want death penalty back
Nov 25, 2011, 14:58 GMT
Warsaw - Polands biggest opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), said Friday it would push for bringing back capital punishment.
'There are no EU rules which forbid this,' Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chief of the right-wing party, said in Warsaw.
PiS is planning to lobby for an amendment to criminal law so that especially brutal murders become punishable with death.
Currently, murderers spend seven years in prison on average, Kaczynski said.
'This is a situation that has to be changed,' he said. 'The state is there to protect honest citizens.'
Poland was under no obligation to follow the stance of the European Union's elites on this matter, he added.
Kaczynski's twin brother, the late president, had started a discussion on the death penalty when he was justice minister from 2000 to 2001. Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash last year.
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