Plaque with the Penal Reform that abolished the death penalty, promulgated by Peter Leopold of Lorraine in 1786, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Tuscany
The death penalty is an act "convenient only to barbarian peoples" writes Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgating the Penal Reform through which, for the first time in the world, the death penalty is abolished and with it also torture. Second son of the empress Maria Teresa, was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany of the Habsburg house (after the Medici dynasty had died out in 1737), from 1765 to 1790, when he left the grand duchy to his son, Ferdinand III, to go and occupy the imperial throne to which he had been elected (with the name of Leopold II). He was an enlightened ruler.
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Location: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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