ROME–If you are wishing you were in Italy right now, watching some amazing clay-court tennis at the 2021 Italian Open in Rome, be glad you stayed home. Though this crime was pretty bad, even for American standards, the punishment these guys received is way worse. Makes you wonder how a Mafia boss would fare in the same situation…
The family of one of two Americans, both convicted of a fatal stabbing during a scuffle with an Italian police officer, on Thursday blasted the jury for ordering Italy’s harshest punishment of life imprisonment, a sentence frequently meted out to mobsters who assassinate state officials.
Months after the July 26, 2019 slaying of Carabinieri Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome, prosecutors asked for indictments for the two teenage friends from California. Read the full article here ▶
