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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 president, Enrico de Nicola, declined to pardon the three convicts, and they were executed by a firing squad on 4 March 1947, at Basse di Stura riverside, in the suburbs of Turin. This was the last execution in Italy for common crimes, while the next day there was the last execution for war crimes (against members of the National Republican ...
The association against death penalty and torture was founded in Rome in 1993 by former left-wing terrorist and current nonviolent politician and human rights activist Sergio D'Elia, with his first wife Mariateresa Di Lascia and Italian Radicals' liberal leaders Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino (former European Commissioner).
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3]
Discretionary for weapons trafficking; abetting mutiny; perjury causing wrongful execution; [265] consorting with a person carrying or having possession of arms or explosives; waging or attempting to wage war or abetting the waging of war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, a Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri [266] A plan to abolish the death ...
The Council of Europe has two main instruments against capital punishment: Protocol 6 and Protocol 13. [5] [6]Protocol 6, opened for signing in 1983, which prohibits capital punishment during peacetime has been ratified by all members of the Council of Europe.
Giovanni Puleo, Francesco La Barbera and Giovanni D'Ignoti after their arrest. The Villarbasse massacre took place on November 20, 1945, in Villarbasse—about 20 km from Turin—where four men from Sicily (Pietro Lala, Giovanni D'Ignoti, Giovanni Puleo, and Francesco La Barbera) killed ten people: [1] the men were sentenced to death, for the last application of capital punishment for common ...
Azul: sem leis de pena de morte atualmente; Laranja: lei de pena de morte declarada inconstitucional; O estado do Kansas declarou a pena de morte constitucional por voto da suprema corte de 26 de junho de 2006 e o estado do Nebraska declarou a eletrocussão, único método permitido para a pena de morte, ilegal em 8 de fevereiro de 2008.