Against the Death Penalty : : Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria / / Giuseppie Pelli; ed. by Peter Garnsey.
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. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointles...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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