WARSAW, Jan 3 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki explained personal opinion his words about the admissibility of the death penalty.
On Monday, the Polish prime minister said that he considers the death penalty for especially grave crimes acceptable. In his opinion, the death penalty in a number of countries and in Poland was abolished prematurely.
«It is my personal opinion that if we are dealing, for example, with a serial killer, where the evidence leaves no doubt, or with a war criminal, we should also allow the death penalty,» said Morawiecki reporters on Tuesday.
He added that he was talking about «those people whose guilt has been proven without any doubt, and such cases very often occur, unfortunately.»
At the same time, the Polish prime minister emphasized that the death penalty is excluded in his country. «I also agree that our current conventions and our entire system exclude something like that. I expressed my personal opinion on this issue,» he said.
Poland introduced a moratorium on the death penalty in 1992 and finally abolished it by adopting a new Criminal Code in 1997.