PiS demands reinstatement of death penalty

Law and Justice (PiS) wants to reintroduce capital punishment by hanging. "The death penalty is the proper punishment for taking somebody's life, criminals would feel less safe," said PiS' leader Jaroslaw Kaczyński during his Sunday press conference. He added that introducing capital punishment is morally legitimate, as it would bring moral order to the country. "This kind of sentence would deter potential killers and would thus help save lives. Apart from that, it eliminates the most perverted and dangerous criminals," argued Zbigniew Ziobro. PiS is looking for political allies to support its stance, but it is unlikely to find any. Besides, capital punishment does not exist in the EU. "Only God can take somebody's life, not another man. As a judge I know that people make mistakes and for a convict a life sentence can be worse than the death penalty," said Janusz Wojciechowski, Polish Peasants Party (PSL) leader. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) D.W.