Against the Death Penalty
Against the Death Penalty The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty--here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when…
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Against the Death Penalty
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty--here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. 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 the death penalty. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless.
Pelli was a Against the Death Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives.Peter Garnsey examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions.
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