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

Name: Against the Death Penalty
Author: Cesare Beccaria

Auteur: Cesare Beccaria

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Cesare Beccaria Giuseppie Pelli

Engels
Paperback
9780691211947
04 juni 2024
232 pagina's

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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 pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the foun

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 the death penalty. 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. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. Garnsey explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience.

With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 juni 2024
Aantal pagina's: 232
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Hoofdauteur: Cesare Beccaria
Tweede Auteur: Giuseppie Pelli
Hoofdredacteur: Peter Garnsey
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Product lengte: 235 mm
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