Cesare Beccaria

1738 – 1794

Attacked torture and arbitrary punishment and argued for proportionate, public law, transforming criminal justice and abolition of capital punishment.

• 1738–1794

  Attacked torture and arbitrary punishment and argued for proportionate, public law, transforming criminal justice and abolition of capital punishment

  Attacked torture and arbitrary punishment and argued for proportionate, public law, transforming criminal justice and abolition of capital punishment.