By 1500 in England, only major felonies carried the death penalty- treason, murder, larceny, burglary, rape, and arson. By 1700, however, Parliament had enacted many new capital offences and hundreds of persons were being put to death each year" (Palmer, Louis J.). The reformation of the death penalty began in Europe in the 1750's...
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The reformation of the death penalty began in Europe in the 1750's. The jurists Ceseare Beccaria, Voltaire, Jeremy Bentham, and Samuel Romilly argued that the death penalty was cruel, overrated as a deterrent and occasionally imposed in fatal error; they defended life imprisonment as a more rational alternative...
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