Executions called off.

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italy: Management at an Italian funfair have withdrawn an attraction allowing visitors to watch a dummy suffer a grisly execution in an electric chair.Ricardo Trebino, a director at Luna Park in a Milan suburb, said 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 one euro ($1.60), visitors saw the mannequin, naked from the waist up, tremble and convulse whilst strapped in the chair, and its hair begin to burn.The manager of the funfair, Yuri Simone, said there were 50 "executions" a day, with 150 on Sunday.

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