Poll: Two-thirds of Czechs for the reintroduction of the death penalty

Two-thirds of Czechs are for the reintroduction of the death penalty, suggests a poll conducted by the CVVM agency and released on Thursday. Over 60 percent of those questioned said they though the death penalty should exist, while one third of those polled were adamantly against capital punishment. The death penalty was employed in former communist Czechoslovakia, the last execution in Czecholsovakia took place in 1989.