Basha: If you want people, we can restore the death penalty in Albania.

Every time Albanian opinion is shaken by serious criminal events, such as the massacre at Matt, attention returns again to the requirement for restoring the death penalty.

The opposition chief Lulzim Basha, last night at Matt, faced such a request.

This is an issue belonging to Albanian citizens, I personally am willing to ask this question to the Albanian people, even as a referendum, the moment the Democratic Party will assume responsibility to govern the country. ”

The last execution is that of 1992 in Fier, where two brothers were killed in the middle of town after they were killed while robbing inside the victim's home, 5 members of a family, including a baby.

Albania since 1995, when it became a member of the Council of Europe, has not served death sentences, and for greater criminal acts, the decision has been transformed into “eternal imprisonment”.

The global removal of the death penalty is one of the main objectives of the EU's human rights policy.

In 2013, the foreign ministers of 42 countries, including Albania, signed the declaration against death sentences, but currently 52 states still hold the execution law.

Belarus is the only country in Europe that has the death penalty in force.

Among the 52 countries are four industrialized nations that continue to execute criminals: The United States, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.