Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
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He ended the death penalty in 1786 — the first ruler in modern history to abolish both execution and torture in his state. That move in Tuscany, twenty-five years before he became Holy Roman Emperor, still gets its own feast day.
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Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard was born 5 May 1747, a son of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, which made him brother to Marie Antoinette and Joseph II. He became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1765 and ruled there for a quarter-century as a moderate enlightened absolutist — he protected the Academy of Georgofili, and on 30 November 1786 he abolished the death penalty and torture, the first modern nation to do so. In 1790 he succeeded his brother Joseph as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria. He died 1 March 1792, two years i…
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