At the Ninth World Congress against the Death Penalty, organized in Paris from Tuesday to Thursday, the President of the Republic stressed the importance of not applying this punishment, so as not to tarnish the “human dignity” of a person.
Since the Ninth World Congress against the Death Penalty, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, assured on Tuesday, June 30, that the abolition of the penalty “has never made society safer.”
“The death penalty has never made society safer. Never. Because it does not deter. It is a lie. It has been shown, observed, measured. It has never had the deterrent performance that some authoritarian powers would like to provide,” he explains.
The main meeting of the global abolitionist movement, organized by the non-governmental organization United Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), began on Tuesday and will continue on Wednesday at the Maison de la Radio and then on Thursday at the Hotel de Lassay, residence of the President of the National Assembly.
“We reduce it, we sanction it, we punish it.”
On the spot, Emmanuel Macron particularly insisted on the importance of “human dignity”, regardless of the act committed by the person.
“Abolition is a recognition of human dignity, and it is the fact that, no matter what one of us can do, we do not have the power to deny this part of our humanity,” he assures in front of thousands of participants.
Punishing a person, however, is the responsibility “to respond to the restoration of the victim’s rights to assistance” but also to “provide reparations in the name of society,” as he qualifies, without, however, “depriving them of their membership in humanity.”
“Being a democracy means making laws and decisions, but it means recognizing the role of everyone in a democratic society. Recognizing that we do not drive out evil from our society, we reduce it, sanction it, punish it. Sometimes we treat it,” assures the head of state.
His speech came, in particular, after two dramatic events in France: the murder of Lianna, as well as the fatal lynching of Louis in Narbonne. If many political groups today oppose the death penalty, some individuals do not hide their desire to apply this punishment.
Like presenter Karine Le Marchand, who wants to be radical on this issue: “You take your life, we take your life,” she assured on her social networks.