Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.

Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes. The 1948 Constitution had already abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes.
Like its European Union partners, it refuses to send prisoners to countries where they could face the death penalty.
The last execution took place on March 4, 1947 in Turin, where three men from Villarbasse, Giovanni D' Ignoti, Giovanni Puleo and Francesco La Barbero, were shot at a rifle range just outside the city. The three men had been condemned to death by the Turin Court of Assizes on July 5, 1946 (the last death sentence handed down in Italy) for clubbing to death ten people and throwing their bodies down a well while committing a robbery at the farm where they lived, which netted the accused 45,000 Lire each.
Even though the death penalty has been abolished from the Penal and Military Codes, a reference to the death penalty as prescribed by the Military Code is still present in the Constitution. A law to delete this reference is under consideration by Parliament. Italy has played a fundamental role in promoting on an international level the campaign for a global moratorium on executions since 1994, when it raised the question at the UN General Assembly for the first time, presenting an apposite resolution. The fact that this resolution for a global moratorium on executions was defeated by only eight votes led Italy to present a similar text at the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), where it has been approved every year from 1997-2004. In 1997 and 1998 the resolution was presented at the Commission directly by the Italian Government; while in 1999 Italy decided to place the resolution in the hands of the European Union. Italy co-sponsored and voted for the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 20, 2005.