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The death penalty was subsequently abolished in 1889 and only revived under Italian Fascism. Capital punishment was sanctioned in the codes of law of all the other pre-unitarian states, therefore after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, legislation was divided: the penal code of the former Kingdom of Sardinia, which contemplated ...
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).
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
The institution of capital punishment in Jewish law is defined in the Law of Moses (Torah) in multiple places. The Mosaic Law provides for the death penalty to be inflicted upon those persons convicted of the following offenses: adultery (for a married woman and her lover) [12] [13] bestiality [14] blasphemy [15] child sacrifice [16]
Giacomo was first tortured with red-hot tongs, then struck to death with a mace (executed by mazzatello), and finally quartered. The sensational murder trial and the events leading up to it sent shockwaves across Europe and deeply affected the people of Rome, who protested against the papal tribunal's decision.
Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners. John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore [1] Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian [2] Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar. [3]
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
20 Italian partisans tortured and executed by Fascist Blackshirts [80] Rovetta massacre: 28 April 1945 Salussola: 43 Italian partisans 43 National Republican Guard prisoners executed by partisans from the Brigata Camozzi, Brigate Garibaldi and Brigate Fiamme Verdi. [81] Schio massacre: 6 July 1945 Schio: 54 Partisans