Italy
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- January 1, 1948; amended several times
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law; the Constitutional Court can review certain legislative texts
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Chamber of Deputies and Senate
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court (15 judges, one third appointed by the Head of State, one third elected by Parliament, one third by the judiciary)
RELIGIONS
90% Catholics, 10% others
From the country
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian police, acting on a tip from US intelligence...
Italian police, acting on a tip from US intelligence officials, arrested 15 Pakistanis allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaida network
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Safiya Hussaini, the Nigerian woman sentenced to death...
Safiya Hussaini, the Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Nigeria, and saved in part by worldwide mobilisation in her favour, has become a citizen of Rome
- JULY 31, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy refused to extradite a Rumanian national to Turkey...
Italy refused to extradite a Rumanian national to Turkey to face murder charges
- JULY 31, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy refused to extradite a Rumanian national to Turkey...
Italy refused to extradite a Rumanian national to Turkey to face murder charges
- JULY 23, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
On initiative of Hands off Cain, the Human Rights Commission...
On initiative of Hands off Cain, the Human Rights Commission of the Italian Senate granted an informal hearing on the freedom of cult and expression to Uighur and Falun Gong representatives
- JUNE 28, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy intends to front the campaign for a global moratorium...
Italy intends to front the campaign for a global moratorium on executions through a UN resolution following the defeat of the same proposal at the UN General Assembly in 1999, the Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Baccini said at the launc
- JUNE 26, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni illustrated the new lighting...
Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni illustrated the new lighting project on the city's famed Colosseum and said it will serve to draw greater attention to the city's campaign against the death penalty because "every time an execution is suspended anywhere in the w
- MAY 3, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention...
Italy signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- APRIL 25, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution...
Italy was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- MARCH 26, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of people flocked to the Stazione Leopolda...
Hundreds of people flocked to the Stazione Leopolda in Florence yesterday for a concert-debate against the death penalty that was also an occasion to celebrate Safiya's release
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy's professional football association organised...
Italy's professional football association organised a protest over plans in Nigeria to stone a woman to death
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations...
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations demonstrated in protest as Syrian dictator Bashar Assad met Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni and demanded that Italian authorities make human rights in Syria the focus of bilateral talks