Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Capital Punishment for Aggravated Sexual Crimes
The death penalty may be legally available, but not mandatory, for the most aggravated forms of rape and child sexual abuse.
Policy catalogueGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Agreed PolicyDeath Penalty
Restore Europe accepts the traditional legitimacy of capital punishment in principle, reserved for exceptional cases involving the gravest crimes.
Position
Restore Europe accepts the traditional Catholic legitimacy of capital punishment in principle, but reserves it for exceptional cases involving the gravest crimes.
Policy
- Potentially applicable to aggravated intentional murder, mass murder, terrorism involving deliberate killing, genocide and comparably grave offences.
- Only after a full and fair trial, a high evidentiary threshold and a meaningful right of appeal.
- No execution where serious doubt remains about guilt.
- No execution of minors.
- Imposed only by legitimate civil authority, and never used merely for vengeance.
Implementation note
Implementation note
This is an explicit departure from the contemporary abolitionist position of the Catholic Catechism, adopting the older traditional allowance instead. Capital punishment is also prohibited across the Council of Europe, so this would require withdrawal from or amendment of existing treaty commitments.
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- Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Prisons, Punishment and Rehabilitation
Proportionate punishment, protection of society, restitution where possible, and serious rehabilitation aimed at repentance and reintegration.
- Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Criminal Sentencing
Punishment should be proportionate to gravity and culpability, protect society, provide restitution where possible and pursue rehabilitation where realistic.
- Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Catholic Confessional State
Restore Europe supports formal constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the principal public religion, and rejects the claim that the state can be morally or religiously neutral.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.