Crime
In accordance with Article 22 of the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy, the Italian government, when requested by the Holy See, handles the prosecution and detention of criminal suspects, at the expense of the Vatican. Capital punishment was envisaged in the legislation adopted in 1929 on the basis of Italian law, but the Vatican state never exercised it and abolished it in 1969.
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Theres no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (16781707)
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankindah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneselfconfronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only mans frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)