Rocco code was an Italian list of crimes which were punishable with the

death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

, it was introduced in 1930 and was put in force on July 1, 1931, during the

Italian Empire The Italian colonial empire ( it, Impero coloniale italiano), known as the Italian Empire (''Impero Italiano'') between 1936 and 1943, began in Africa in the 19th century and comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependencie ...

. It also reintroduced capital punishment for more common crimes. It was used sparsely until the outbreak of war in 1940 and a total of 26 executions were carried out until 1943 compared to Germany's 80,000 legal executions in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

.''Mussolini - En Studie i Makt'', Göran Hägg, p. 116–117

References

{{Reflist Death penalty law Legal history of Italy