Strong reactions from across the political spectrum have sparked a decision by Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation to overturn the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his partner during the COVID-19 lockdown because the trial court decision did not take into account mitigating factors related to the pandemic. The case concerns the March 2020 murder of Lorena Quarada, a 27-year-old final year medical student from the city of Favara in the province of Agrigento. Her partner, then 28-year-old Calabrian nurse Antonio De Pace, confessed to strangling her in the house where they lived in Furci Sikulo in the province of Messina. In explaining its decision, the Supreme Court announced that the judges who imposed the life sentence “did not consider whether the specific nature of the situation, the period of the pandemic and the difficulty of dealing with it, constitute factors affecting the extent of criminal responsibility ». Hence, […]
Source: News Beast
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