The murders sparked protests in Messina, Rome and other Italian cities, including Bologna, on Wednesday night. Further events are planned on Thursday.
In March, Giorgia Meloni’s government approved a draft law which for the first time introduced a legal definition of femicide in criminal law, punishing it with life in prison while increasing sentences for crimes including stalking, sexual violence and “revenge porn”.
The law followed the strong public reaction to the killing of Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old student who was murdered by her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, in November 2023. Turetta was sentenced to life in prison in December.
This meme about prison being for “rehabilitation” needs to go the way of the dodo.
Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, kids. Sometimes the only way to stop somebody from doing something bad is to threaten them with, gasp, a punishment.
Sad this needs to be spelled out for most of you, but it really puts into perspective the kind of person that frequents these forums.
I’m just glad most of you don’t have a greater impact on the world.
So murdering people hasn’t been met with punishment in Italy before? That’s news to me.
Of course it has. I seriously doubt that these murderers were calculating their prison sentence and telling themselves "Oh, if I only get 15 years in prison, that’s not too bad. "
If the goal of prison isn’t to turn criminals into better citizens, then why not put all prisoners in a hard labor camp?
That’s slavery.
It is legal for prisoners to be enslaved - perhaps you missed that little gotcha in the amendment.
We weren’t talking about what is legal.
I’m going to ignore you now. You people are insufferable.