Spanish Steps include the song "Spanish Steps of Rome" as a bonus track. The song describes a "femme fatale" romance that takes place on and around the Spanish Steps. In an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" which aired on October 2, 2000, Ray, Debra, Frank, and Marie climb the Spanish Steps during a family vacation in Rome. An episode of the anime series "Gunslinger Girl", entitled "Gelato (Ice Cream)," which first aired in 2003, features the protagonist by the Spanish Steps having her "reward" of ice cream after having completed a successful raid. In 2005, American rock band Of A Revolution released
Capital punishment in Vatican City Capital punishment in Vatican City Capital punishment in Vatican City was legal between 1929 and 1969, reserved for attempted assassination of the Pope, but has never been applied there. Executions were carried out elsewhere in the Papal States during their existence. The death penalty had support from early Catholic theologians, though some of them such as Saint Ambrose encouraged members of the clergy not to pronounce or carry out capital punishment. Saint Augustine answered objections to capital punishment rooted in the first commandment in "The City of God". Augustine's argument is as such: "Since the agent of authority is but