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. |