I live in Tuscany; one of our points of pride is that the Granducato di Toscana suppressed death penalty for the first time in the world in 1786, 30 November (this date is today our Festa della Toscana)

I'm totally against the death penalty; I think it's morally wrong and, when applied, it's open to too many mistakes of judgement( speaking about USA, in 2001 Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor noting that 90 death row inmates have been exonerated by new evidence since 1973,in a speech she said that "the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed."). Probably this is one of the most important issue which divides US and Europe. And in other contries the situation on this problem is worse than this

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