Outgoing Hungarian Justice Minister Ibolya David,...

Outgoing Hungarian Justice Minister Ibolya David, referring to the European Union's ban on the death penalty, said that death penalty cannot be a yardstick of democracy under any circumstances.
David's comments followed outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban statement in favour of re-introducing the death penalty in Hungary. The government candidate for the post of Justice Minister, Peter Barandy, at a parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee hearing, called Viktor Orban's statement outrageously irresponsible.
Barandy said such a statement may put Hungary's accession to the EU in question.