QUOTE: “Countries that give up this
penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the
advantage of life over death.” [Mr. Kaczynski said in July
2006. His coalition partner, the far-right League of Polish Families, wants to
change the country’s penal code so that pedophiles convicted of murder will
face execution.]
AUTHOR: Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish
pronunciation: [ˈlɛx alɛkˈsandɛr
kaˈt͡ʂɨȷ̃skʲi]; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician
who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of
Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was
also a member of the Law and Justice party. He was the identical twin brother
of the former Prime Minister of Poland and current Chairman of the Law and
Justice party, Jarosław Kaczyński. On 10 April 2010, he died in the crash of a
Polish Air Force Tu-154 while attempting to land at Smolensk-North airport in
Russia.
APPLICATION: The late
Polish Prime Minister can debunk what Desmond Tutu said, “To take a life when a
life is lost is revenge not justice.”
When a country abolishes the death
penalty, murderers have advantage of life over death on their victims. In this
sense, it is a mockery of justice. Immanuel Kant will agree to that.
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