TY - BOOK AU - Garnsey, Peter TI - Rethinking Capital Punishment: The Pre-History of the Abolition of the Death Penalty SN - 9781009760089 PY - 2026/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal N2 - Introduction; 1. Lex Talionis; 2. Plato: punishment as reform and deterrence; 3. Retribution and revenge; 4. Jesus; 5. Thomas More; 6. The state of nature and the social contract; 7. From utility to utilitarianism; 8. Giuseppe Pelli; 9. Cesare Beccaria; 10. Postscript: British and American exceptionalism UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009760089 ER -