Editing Execution by firing squad (section)

===Italy===
{{Main|Capital punishment in Italy}}
[[File:Anton Dostler 1945 Colourized.jpg|thumb|[[Anton Dostler]] before his execution]]

Italy had used the firing squad as its only form of death penalty, both for civilians and military, since the unification of the country in 1861. The death penalty was abolished completely by both Italian Houses of Parliament in 1889 but revived under the Italian [[dictatorship]] of [[Benito Mussolini]] in 1926. [[Death of Benito Mussolini|Mussolini was himself shot]] in the last days of World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mussolini_benito.shtml|title= History – Historic Figures: Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)|website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=23 November 2017}}</ref>

On 1 December 1945 [[Anton Dostler]], the first German [[General officer|general]] to be [[War crimes trials|tried for war crimes]], was executed by a U.S. firing squad in [[Aversa]] after being found guilty by a U.S. military tribunal of ordering the killing of 15 U.S. prisoners of war in Italy during World War II.

The last execution took place on 4 March 1947, as Francesco La Barbera, Giovanni Puleo and Giovanni D'Ignoti, sentenced to death on multiple accounts of robbery and murder, faced the firing squad at the range of Basse di Stura, near [[Turin]]. Soon after the [[Constitution of Italy|Constitution of the newly proclaimed Republic]] prohibited the death penalty except for some crimes of the military penal code of war, like high treason; no one was sentenced to death after 1947. In 2007 the Constitution was amended to ban the death penalty altogether.