Word: cristini
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Strapped to four chairs the condemned were set up with their backs to a firing squad which proceeded to aim at the bases of their spines. Present were General Guido Cristini, President of the Facist Supreme Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, and his fellow judges. This was their third execution, the Death sentence having been revived in Italy for crimes against the State in 1927. With set, stern Facist faces they watched until 5:43 a. m. when the rifles cracked out shots in the back-Italy's idea of a supremely disgraceful Death. Throughout Jugoslavia...
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