In a statement, the far-right party says that “immigrant assassins” had turned the country into a “jungle” and that the Greek state has been unable to handle them.
Military weapons are essential in order to combat the “heavily armed gangs of immigrant criminals,” the statement added.
Greece officially abolished the death penalty in 1993. The last execution that took place in Greece occurred on August 25, 1972. A firing squad shot 27 year old Vassilis Lymberis for the murder of his wife, mother-in-law and two children on the island of Crete.
According to Wikipedia, capital punishment was abolished for peacetime crimes other than treason during wartime by the Constitution of 1975.
In 1997 Greece ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; however, a reservation was made allowing for death penalty use for the most serious crimes of a military nature committed during wartime. Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, providing for the abolition of the death penalty in peacetime, was ratified in 1998.
In 2004 Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and in 2005, the State ratified the Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR, concerning the abolition of the death penalty under all circumstances.
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