Cesare Beccaria ; Giuseppie Pelli

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria crea

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria crea

"Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment" Originally published in 1764, Beccaria's treatise argued r

A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; the