Among the many anniversaries that we could choose for March 4, starting from the well-known song by Lucio Dalla (which indicates his date of birth) March 4, 1943, up to the electoral session that exactly two years ago gave us the current majority in Parliament, we have chosen one that not many will remember: on 4 March 1947, exactly 73 years ago, the last death sentence was carried out in Italy. Well yes: even if for a very few years, the death sentence existed in our country even in the Republican era. After the Second World War, in fact, the institute remained in force: indeed, the decree law dated 10 May 1945, n. 234 (later modified by the legislative decree of the provisional Head of State 2 August 1946, n. 64) re-admitted the death penalty as a temporary and exceptional measure also for serious crimes such as robbery, extortion, kidnapping for the purpose of robbery or extortion, constitution or organization of an armed gang.
Only with the Constitution, approved by the Constituent Assembly on 22 December 1947 and entered into force on 1 January 1948, was the death penalty definitively abolished for all common and military crimes committed in peacetime. Before, however, it was carried out by firing squad inside a penitentiary establishment and was not admitted to the public. However, the Minister of Justice could establish whether the execution was public or carried out elsewhere. The last people to receive the extreme punishment, on March 4, 1947, were Francesco La Barbera, Giovanni Puleo, Giovanni D'Ignoti: the three had been sentenced to death for the Villarbasse massacre, one of the most heinous crimes of the immediate after the war, consumed on November 20, 1945.
The facts: during a robbery in a farmhouse in Villarbasse, near Turin, ten people were beaten to death with sticks and thrown alive into a cistern. The perpetrators of the massacre were four Sicilians, one of whom was killed in a settlement of accounts between criminals in Sicily before his capture, while the other three mentioned above were precisely executed. For them, the then President of the Republic Enrico De Nicola rejected the pardon and on March 4, 1947, at 7:45, the last shooting was carried out in Italy.
To be re-introduced as soon as possible for heinous crimes and for mafia crimes against the state.
you need to know the magistrate on duty who signed that death sentence (a man loved by the Italians) he was worse than the murderers. the trial had a fast and hasty process to reach the death sentence. they were not pardoned by DE GASPERI (because).
the magistrate was OSCAR LUIGI SCALFARO (PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC).
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Which did good! 10 people reduced to death and thrown alive in a cistern... too little the death penalty
Let's bring it back. Suum cuique.