nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191217-180831-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191217s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191217-180831-0 doi eng 342 23 Rosanò, Alessandro Author aut Shying Away from Strasbourg The Ruling of the Italian Constitutional Court on Life Sentence without Parole Rosanò, Alessandro Verfassungsblog 2019-12-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the Italian Constitutional Court published its reasoning on a judgment regarding the so-called ergastolo ostativo (life sentence without parole). The challenged provision excludes persons convicted of serious crimes – primarily mafia-type – from a series of benefits (for example, permits and conditional release) in the event that they do not want to collaborate with the authorities. Italy’s Constitutional Court now held that this provision is not in line with the constitution but missed a chance to give full effect to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Criminal Law ECtHR Italian Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/shying-away-from-strasbourg/ raw object