First argument against the death penalty

I discovered this author without legal or really interested in the law, usually bores me deeply. Yet I wanted to buy that cheap little book to get an idea of ​​what some foreign minds thought of the Enlightenment.
The Marquis Cesare Beccaria was my time, because its strong illuminated book on which, they say, will draw all subsequent criminal legislation in Europe is a powerful logical argument, but very easy to read.
Did you remember eg. what he says here: "Laws are only the sum of the freedom of each individual portions, smaller than everyone could give."
A rather long and pleasant introduction to René Badinter allows to situate the work.

Obviously, France, although she always says vanguard (crowing), will vote conserving the death penalty during the Revolution and will remove two centuries while others abolish the country during this period.

At this price, it is even recommended for those law books that usually bored.