Rocco code was an Italian list of crimes which were punishable with the

death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...

, it was introduced in 1930 and was put in force on July 1, 1931, during the

Italian Empire The Italian colonial empire (), also known as the Italian Empire (''Impero italiano'') between 1936 and 1941, was founded in Africa in the 19th century. It comprised the colonies, protectorates, concession (territory), concessions and depende ...

. It also reintroduced capital punishment for more common crimes. It was used sparsely until the outbreak of war in 1940 and a total of 26 executions were carried out until 1943 compared to Germany's 80,000 legal executions in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

.''Mussolini - En Studie i Makt'', Göran Hägg, p. 116–117

References

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