Beccaria's Beliefs and Writings About the Proportionality of Crime and Punishment

question 86

Multiple Choice

Beccaria's beliefs and writings about the proportionality of crime and punishment have been credited as the basis for the elimination of what nineteenth-century practice?

• A) public executions
• B) hanging
• C) the death penalty
• D) torture

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