The management at an Italian funfair has withdrawn an attraction allowing visitors to watch a dummy suffer a grisly execution in an electric chair, a news agency reported on Thursday.
Ricardo Trebino, a director at Luna Park in a Milan suburb, told Ansa that ”we have decided to pardon the prisoner” following consultations with the district’s mayor and in light of public protests.
Italy has been at the forefront of a campaign at the United Nations General Assembly for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty.
After paying €1, visitors saw the mannequin, naked from the waist up, tremble and convulse while strapped in the chair, and its hair begin to burn, according to images shown on television news channel Sky24.
La Repubblica quoted manager of the funfair Yuri Simone as saying there were about 50 ”executions” a day, with 150 on Sunday. — Sapa-AFP