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08 October 2019 Italy must reform the law on life imprisonment. This is the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (Cedu) based in Strasbourg, France, "because it violates human rights", preventing the convicted of particularly serious crimes, for example mafia and terrorism, from benefiting from the penalty if not cooperate with justice.

Thus a life imprisonment that does not provide benefits or discounts in the absence of collaboration with the justice of the convict. The sentence of life imprisonment was introduced in Italy with the law number 356 of August 1992, in the months following the death of magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.

The ruling therefore rejects the Italian government's appeal, confirming the sentence issued last June 13th when it considered the inmate's appeal lodged by Marcello Viola admissible and established that there had been a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights .