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The Lake Maggiore massacres was a set of World War II war crimes that took place near Lake Maggiore, Italy in September and October 1943.Despite strict orders not to commit any violence against civilians in the aftermath of the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, members of the SS Division Leibstandarte murdered 56 Jews, predominantly Italian and Greek.
Rocco code was an Italian list of crimes which were punishable with the death penalty, it was introduced in 1930 and was put in force on July 1, 1931, during the Italian Empire. It also reintroduced capital punishment for more common crimes.
A series of polls since 2010 found that support for the death penalty has been growing. from 25% in 2010, 35% in 2017 and In 2020, 43% of Italians expressed support for the death penalty. [12] [13] [14] A February 2024 poll has found that 31% of Italians support the death penalty. [15]
(See List of maritime disasters in the 20th century for further details.) Galleria delle Grazie human stampede 23 October 1942 Genoa: 354 People were killed by stampede during an attack by the RAF Bomber Command in WWII as they made their way into Galleria delle Grazie, a railway tunnel in use as an air-raid shelter. Rushing down the 150 steps ...
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder; Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska; Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon; Patrick Moran (1921) William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978 ...
The Supreme Court has severely limited the crimes that the death penalty can be a punishment for. It has also abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by a person under the age of 18. Sentences of death may be handed down by a jury or a judge (upon a bench trial or a guilty plea). Uruguay: 1902 1907
The 12th-century Jewish legal scholar Maimonides stated that "It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death." [39] The position of Jewish Law on capital punishment often formed the basis of deliberations by Israel's Supreme Court.
It is estimated that about 10,000 Italian Jews were deported to concentration and death camps, of whom 7,700 perished in the Holocaust, out of a pre-war Jewish population that amounted to 58,500 (46,500 by Jewish religion and 12,000 converted or non-Jewish sons of mixed marriages).