The Death Penalty Book Summary
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Published: May 09, 2008
The death penalty have aroused full of debates. It''s since 1764, date of publishing of offences and punishments book, that the marquis of Beccaria raise the problem of the first time. Is he natural before this date for the justice to kill the persons that she has judged dangerous, or it''s only the time who are done that the society become mature for ask this question on the right of life on this citizens? The book of Beccaria known a huge success altrought all Europe, desides the states named abolitionist begin to appear from 1786. The fight who are lead the scientist and intellectuals on the death penalty goes until source of civilized nation. Nevertheless, the state who aren''t abolish the death penalty don''t means that the barbarian and reactionary states, (the exemple the most important are the United-States who are kept in certains state the death penalty, but he exist in the punishment a feeling of revenge, the law of one eye to an eye that the modernity don''t accept or reject. Adding, more than simple philosophic question, the death penalty has long time been a struggle for discharge of more powerful and of richess. The fight of death penalty in France enter in the program of all revolutionarty who beleive in the freedom, the brotherhood and the liberty because it''s the fight that have lead this citizens for don''t see the serf be hung for have stolen the piece of cloth or a spoon.