"Prime Minister Orban assured [the European Parliament] President Schulz that the Hungarian government has no plans to take any steps to introduce the death penalty," the statement read.
Orban`s statement on the death penalty came after a 21-year-old clerk was brutally murdered in southwestern Hungary, causing wide public condemnation.
Hungary abolished the death penalty in 1990 along with 39 other counties, including Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania. Capital punishment is prohibited in the European Union.
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