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
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
18 January 2021
Pages
226
ISBN
9780691209883

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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