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


D

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a. True b. False

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A) True B) False

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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