Italy has introduced a separate article on femicide into its criminal code, providing for life imprisonment.
The Italian legislative body has agreed without opposition to incorporate a distinct clause concerning femicide—the killing of a female perpetrated due to gender-based motives—within the nation’s penal statutes.
This offense will carry a sentence of lifelong incarceration.
The legislation secured approval on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Italy now ranks as the fourth nation within the EU to formally establish a judicial classification of femicide within its legal framework, subsequent to Cyprus, Malta, and Croatia.
Out of the 116 female homicides registered in the previous year, authorities in Italy suggest that 106 were supposedly driven by gender.
