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POLAND - Abolitionist
Government: presidential parliamentary democracy
State of civil and political rights: Free
Constitution: adopted by the National Assembly on 2 April 1997; passed by national referendum 23 May 1997
Legal System: mixture of Continental (Napoleonic) civil law and holdover communist legal theory; the judiciary has limited powers concerning the revision of legislation
Legislative System: bicameral National Assembly (Zgromadzenie Narodowe) consists of the Sejm and the Senate
Judicial System: Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the Head of State upon the recommendation of the National Judiciary Council) and Constitutional Tribunal (judges are chosen by the Sejm for nine-year terms)
Religion: 91% Catholic; 8% Protestant; Orthodox and Jewish minorities
International Treaties on the Death Penalty and Human Rights:
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1st Optional Protocol to the Covenant
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 6th Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (concerning the abolition of the death penalty)
- Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances (signed only)
- Statute of the International Criminal Court (which excludes the death penalty)
FACTS
NEWS
Stands and opinions on the death penalty
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Council of Europe
European Union
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