President
Rita Bernardini
Since 1993. Former parliamentarian. UN missions in Geneva, New York, Tokyo.
ABOUT US
Since 1993, the life of rights for the right to life.
Nessuno tocchi Caino — Hands Off Cain — is a radical, non-violent, non-profit association. We fight for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, against deaths in prison, against preventive measures applied without trial. We are members of the Council of Europe and the UN.
ABOUT US
Justice, not vengeance.
The name comes from Genesis: «The Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who met him would strike him down». Nessuno tocchi Caino means justice without vengeance. We are an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, founded in Brussels in 1993. Our goal is a universal moratorium on executions established by the United Nations: the path of dialogue, not abolition by decree.
- 1993
- FOUNDED IN BRUSSELS
- 98%
- EXECUTIONS IN AUTHORITARIAN COUNTRIES
- 117
- COUNTRIES IN FAVOUR · UN MORATORIUM 2016
WHAT WE DO
01 — DEATH PENALTY
Toward the end of the Cain-State
We must move forward, beyond the death penalty, freeing first of all ourselves and clearing the field of the mental and structural apparatus of judgment: investigations and tribunals, sentences and punishments, prosecutors and judges, jailers and executioners.
02 — DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
Toward the end of punishment
Prisons are not only places of deprivation of liberty. Because what is missing are the fundamental senses and the most meaningful human contacts. The punishment is corporal, the harm is existential, the suffering is grave for everyone, not only for the detained, but also for those who detain.
03 — WHEN PREVENTING IS WORSE than punishing
Enough with the witch-hunt
In the name of the war on the mafia, summary trials and medieval punishments — such as seizures and confiscations of assets, prefectural bans, the dissolution of municipalities — have been added to, and often preferred over, contemporary trials and criminal penalties.
OUR STORY
Thirty-three years of battles.
1993
Nessuno tocchi Caino is born as a league of citizens and parliamentarians, on the initiative of the Radical Party.
1994
First UN campaign for a universal moratorium on executions.
2007
The UN General Assembly approves the moratorium resolution for the first time.
2011
Launch of the programme of systematic visits to Italian prisons: "Death by punishment" is born.
2018
Campaign "When preventing is worse than punishing" against ante delictum preventive measures.
2020
The Banca Dati annual report distributed in 14 languages to diplomats and parliamentarians.
2026
112 countries abolitionist in fact or in law. The battle continues.
HONORARY PRESIDENCY
- Santi Consolo
- Vincenzo Maiello
- Tullio Padovani
- Andrea Saccucci
TEAM AND BODIES
Who carries the battle forward.
Secretary
Sergio D'Elia
Journalist and activist. Podcast The Sign of Cain.
Treasurer
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Coordinator of the Database. Responsible for the annual report.
Fundraising
Alberto Genovese
Entrepreneur
STEERING COMMITTEE
- Porzia Addabbo
- Gianni Alemanno
- Matteo Angioli
- Massimo Arlechino
- Umberto Baccolo
- Vito Baglio
- Elena Baldi
- Sandro Barchiesi
- Marco Beltrandi
- Padre Guido Bertagna
- Domenico Bilotti
- Salvatore Bonadonna
- Anna Briganti
- Pasquale Bronzo
- Maria Brucale
- Antonio Buonfiglio
- Cesare Burdese
- Santo Cambareri
- Federico Canziani
- Pietro Cavallotti
- Federico Celano
- Paolo Cesari
- Marco Clarke
- Antonio Coniglio
- Claudio Conte
- Raffaele Conte
- Donatella Corleo
- Fabrizio Costarella
- Ambrogio Crespi
- Andrea Cuzzocrea
- Tonino D'Angelo
- Vincent Delbos
- Nino Di Guardo
- Vincenzo Di Paolo
- Gianpietro Doni
- Luca Doniselli
- Andreana Esposito
- Fabio Falbo
- Corrado Favara
- Ester Ferdeghini
- Maria Chiara Gadda
- Davide Galliani
- Salvatore Galluzzo
- Bruno Gambardella
- Alessandro Gargiulo
- Roberto Giachetti
- Carmen Gualtieri
- Norberto Guerriero
- Vincenzo Improta
- Paolo Ingrao
- Giuseppe La Gala
- Baldassare Lauria
- Gianluca Liut
- Renzo Magosso
- Tiziana Maiolo
- Francesca Mambro
- Silvja Manzi
- Enrico Marignani
- Antonella Mascia
- Diego Mazzola
- Bruno Mellano
- Esmail Mohades
- Nicla Moiraghi
- Francesco Morelli
- Davide Mosso
- Giuseppe Napoli
- Andrea Nicolosi
- Cosimo Palumbo
- Orazio Paolello
- Mauro Paolinelli
- Patrizia Patrizi
- Stefano Petrella
- Maria Teresa Pintus
- Maurizio Pistorio
- Bianca Piscolla
- Renata Polverini
- Andrea Pugiotto
- Gaetano Puzzangaro
- Elisabetta Rampelli
- Roberto Rampi
- Sabrina Renna
- Angelo Riccardi
- Giorgia Ricci
- Mimmo Risica
- Fulvio Rizzo
- Thomas Roeth
- Alessandro Rosasco
- Carla Rossi
- Mara Rossi
- Giuseppe Rossodivita
- Blanca Ruiz-Zorrilla
- don Vincenzo Russo
- Marco Scurria
- Emiliano Silvestri
- Sonia Sommacal
- Marco Sorbara
- Raffaella Stacciarini
- Guglielmo Starace
- Lorenzo Strik-Lievers
- Giovanni Terzi
- Azalen Tomaselli
- Michele Vaira
- Clara Veneto
- Simona Ventura
- Matteo Zamboni
- Pierdonato Zito
TEN YEARS LATER · 19 MAY 2016—2026
Marco Pannella, the founder.
Tenth anniversary of the death of Marco Pannella, the founder. A life made of hunger strikes, sit-ins, non-violent battles for human rights, the abolition of the death penalty, the justice that does not punish but repairs. Our battle continues because he taught it to us.
«The death penalty is not justice. It is vengeance organised by the State. It is the proof that the State surrenders to hatred.»
— MARCO PANNELLA, 1993