Against the Death Penalty
Beccaria, Cesare / Pelli, Giuseppie / Beccaria, Cesare / Garnsey, Peter
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 founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of t...
