Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists-Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria
Giuseppie Pelli
Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists-Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria
Giuseppie Pelli
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in English
In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the foun
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