# Who did San Marino execute in 1468?

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**Created:** [December 14, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-san-marino-execute-in-1468/740439 "2015-12-14T19:45:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-san-marino-execute-in-1468/740439/1 "2015-12-14T19:45:29Z")

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I was reading [a thread on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3wn4bl/til_that_belarus_is_the_last_country_in_europe/cxxkkv4) where someone mentioned that the last execution that occurred in the tiny republic of San Marino occurred in 1468 (They finally abolished the death penalty in 1865).

There are [plenty](http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/europe.html) of [cites (DOC)](http://oon.bsu.edu.ru/docs/SPCH.doc) for this date, but none for the person that did it or the crime committed. . [This story](http://www.smtvsanmarino.sm/cultura/2010/10/10/1865-san-marino-decide-completa-abolizione-pena-morte) (in Italian), claims it was for murder, although it also claims the penalty was enacted in 1677, but doesn’t tell us whodunnit.

Now I’m curious - who was this guy, who did he kill (if it was in fact for murder), and what did people think about it at the time?

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**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-san-marino-execute-in-1468/740439/2 "2015-12-14T20:22:42Z")

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Strange that there are two different dates out there, and neither with a lot of detail. The [Italian-language Wikipedia article on capital punishment in San Marino](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pena_di_morte_a_San_Marino) says, without citing a source as far as I can tell, that their last use of capital punishment was in “1677 for murder, or perhaps 1468 according to other sources.” It also mentions beheading as the method, while the [English-language Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_San_Marino) mentions hanging.

I don’t speak Italian, I’m piecing that translation together through a combination of Google Translate and my working knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese. I get the feeling that any good cites out there on the Internet are probably going to be in Italian.