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| Italian prisoners want death penalty |
| 2007-06-01 |
| Hundreds of prisoners serving life sentences in Italy called on President Giorgio Napolitano to bring the death penalty back, in a letter quoted by daily La Repubblica on Thursday. "We are tired of dying a little bit every day. We have decided to die just once and we are asking you to change our life sentence into a death sentence," the letter signed by 310 inmates said. Italy abolished the death penalty after World War II. Life prisoners in Italy can obtain the right to brief periods of release after ten years and their conditional release after 26 years for good conduct, La Repubblica said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Who gives a rat's ass, if europe wants to turn loose all their mad dog killers to rape and murder, that is their business. |
| Posted by: Glatle Untervehr9447 2007-06-01 18:41 |
| #4 Hey. 45 days is like so inhumane. Give me |
| Posted by: Paris Hilton 2007-06-01 17:20 |
| #3 Don't be derceived. What those prisonners are trying to do is to have life sentences abolished so, like in Portugal, after say twenty years even serial killers are released (and to hell with theikr future victims). After having death penalty abolished, European bleeding heart libearls are trying to have life sentences also abolished. This movement comes so opportunely ("life senttences are so inhumane people prefer death, we must abolish them") that IMHO it is 99.9% probable that it is being piloted by the abolitionists. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-06-01 16:46 |
| #2 Jeez, almost sounds like...a Gulag, or sumthin... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-01 15:54 |
| #1 "Breaking rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law and the law won." |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-01 15:50 |