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Deputy justice minister calls for death penalty for 'brutal crimes'

"I support the reinstatement of the death penalty for the most brutal crimes. Any other punishment is plainly unfair. The death penalty is not only an effective deterrent, but also a just punishment," Romanowski said. Albert Zawada/PAP

Speaking to PAP, Marcin Romanowski, a deputy justice minister, referred to the Monday death of an eight-year-old boy from burn wounds inflicted by his step-father. The boy died after several weeks in hospital, where doctors put him into an induced coma in an effort to save his life.

Fourteen-year old charged with murder of Polish boy in UK

A teenager has been charged with the murder of a 14-year-old Polish boy in the north-eastern English town of Gateshead.

Doctors save five-year-old boy’s life after lawnmower fires metal wire into his heart

The child named Przemek had been watching his mum cutting grass at the family home in the town of Opoczno when the lawnmower hit what appeared to be a stone.

Teen sparks national mania after spotted reading book instead of smartphone while selling raspberries

The 13-year-old called Samuel charmed the country after being photographed on the high street in Gniezno which quickly went viral creating a wave of ‘Samuel-mania’.

Schoolboy hero saves life of woman 30 minutes away from death

Maksymilian (Maks) Szoblik from the village of Jaworze in southern Poland was returning from football practice when he noticed the woman with soaking wet shoes huddled up on a bench at a bus stop close to his school.

British13-year-old boy charged with killing Pole

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with stabbing a Pole to death in London, British police announced on Friday.

Mushroom-poisoned Afghan boy to undergo liver transplant in Warsaw

One of the Afghan boys who ate highly poisonous mushrooms with his family will undergo a liver transplant in a Warsaw children's hospital. The other child is in coma.

Warsaw campaign to install plaque reveals incredible WWII story of Jewish boys known as ‘the cigarette sellers of Three Crosses Square’

Operating between 1942 and 1944, the Jewish vendors aged between six and sixteen have been described as “the little heroes of WWII who, through their own survival, defeated the enemy.”

The boy who drew Auschwitz: Harrowing artwork depicting horrors of deathcamp emerge 76 years after Holocaust

To deal with the trauma he had endured, Thomas Geve recorded his memories by putting them on paper. Now for the first time, more than 80 of his sketches are presented alongside his narrative of events in The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz, written with journalist Charlie Inglefield.

FREEDOM! Auschwitz museum boss calls victory after Nigerian teen freed from jail

Auschwitz museum director Piotr Cywiński stepped in to help and offered to serve part of the teen’s jail sentence for clemency after Omar Farouq Bashir was sentenced allegedly ‘blaspheming against Allah’ during an argument with a friend at school.

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