Cesare Beccaria quotes

Cesare Beccaria was an Italian judge, philosopher, and criminologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern criminal law and criminal justice. His influential work "On Crimes and Punishments" advocated for legal reforms, fair trials, and the abolition of torture and the death penalty. He remains a central figure in the history of criminal justice and Enlightenment thought. Here are 2 of his quotes:

[On the death penalty] Seems so absurd to me that the laws, that are the expression of the public will, that hate and punish the murder, make one themselves, and, to dissuade citizens from the murder, order a public murder.

Cesare Beccaria