Overview

• The Corte d'Assise d'Appello published its motivations confirming the life sentence for Alessandro Impagnatiello.
• The court excluded premeditation, writing there is no proof to backdate the intent to kill before the day he stabbed Giulia Tramontano.
• Judges found he had administered rodenticide over months with the purpose of causing a miscarriage.
• The motivations describe the poisoning as a “drastic solution” to what he viewed as a problem for his career and life.
• The written decision clarifies that the poisoning targeted the fetus, not the mother, which led the court to reject the aggravating factor of premeditation.