Against the Death Penalty : Writings from the First Abolitionists-Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

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 the death penalty. This book 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. The book examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions.

• | Author: CESARE. PELLI BECCARIA (GIUSEPPIE. BECCARIA, CESARE.), Giuseppie Pelli
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691211949
• | ISBN-13: 9780691211947