03/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has written to the Polish President, Lech Kaczynski calling on him to retract his proposal concerning reintroduction of the death penalty in Europe. “The creation of a de facto death penalty-free zone throughout our 46 Member States (…) is one of our organisation's greatest achievements”, he said, warning that the reintroduction of the death penalty would be...