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Happy 4th of July: Death Penalty Reform Thinking During The Colonial Period

By "Persian Cowboy"

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Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and founder of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, proposed the complete abolition of capital punishment. Rush's opposition to capital punishment influenced the passage of a 1794 law that abolished the death penalty in Pennsylvania except for murder in the first degree.From Find Law:The Colonial PeriodThe abolitionist movement is rooted in the writings of European social theorists Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Bentham, and English Quakers John Bellers and John Howard. However, it was a 1767 essay, On Crimes and Punishment, written by Cesare Beccaria, which principally influenced thinking about punishment throughout the world. Beccaria wrote that there was no justification for the state's taking of a life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on July 05, 2010 (boomark / email).

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