Man let off with 6-yr sentence for mercy killing. Franco Cioni, 74, killed his 72-year-old terminally ill wife at Vignola in April 2021.
Judges factored in the "moral value and altruism" of the mercy killing, judge said. CionI's "selfless" decision to end the suffering of LauraAmidei "reflects the common feeling of ever larger swathes of society", said the judge in the Emilian city.