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Ramteen Arablui

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

on crimes and punishments.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

on crimes and punishments.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The book also argues that any punishment should be proportional to the crime, which wasn't the case in much of Europe at that time. The English Bill of Rights didn't apply to the rest of Europe, where torture was common.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The book also argues that any punishment should be proportional to the crime, which wasn't the case in much of Europe at that time. The English Bill of Rights didn't apply to the rest of Europe, where torture was common.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The book also argues that any punishment should be proportional to the crime, which wasn't the case in much of Europe at that time. The English Bill of Rights didn't apply to the rest of Europe, where torture was common.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

And then the book kind of blew up and he became known even in America.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

And then the book kind of blew up and he became known even in America.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

And then the book kind of blew up and he became known even in America.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

This is John Bessler.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

This is John Bessler.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

This is John Bessler.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

He's also authored a number of books about the death penalty, including one called The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

He's also authored a number of books about the death penalty, including one called The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

He's also authored a number of books about the death penalty, including one called The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

They would quote Beccaria as tensions between the colonies and Great Britain intensified in the late 1700s. And they were looking to enlighten thinkers like him as they imagined a new country free from the crown. His essay on crimes and punishments was so influential that John says it helped catalyze the American Revolution and what would become America's new criminal justice system.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

They would quote Beccaria as tensions between the colonies and Great Britain intensified in the late 1700s. And they were looking to enlighten thinkers like him as they imagined a new country free from the crown. His essay on crimes and punishments was so influential that John says it helped catalyze the American Revolution and what would become America's new criminal justice system.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

They would quote Beccaria as tensions between the colonies and Great Britain intensified in the late 1700s. And they were looking to enlighten thinkers like him as they imagined a new country free from the crown. His essay on crimes and punishments was so influential that John says it helped catalyze the American Revolution and what would become America's new criminal justice system.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Once the Eighth Amendment was ratified in 1791, it didn't really come up again until the end of the 1800s when two death penalty cases reached the U.S. Supreme Court. There was the case in Utah where the court said the firing squad was constitutional and the second case where the court allowed the country's first execution by the electric chair. That execution did not go smoothly.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Once the Eighth Amendment was ratified in 1791, it didn't really come up again until the end of the 1800s when two death penalty cases reached the U.S. Supreme Court. There was the case in Utah where the court said the firing squad was constitutional and the second case where the court allowed the country's first execution by the electric chair. That execution did not go smoothly.

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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Once the Eighth Amendment was ratified in 1791, it didn't really come up again until the end of the 1800s when two death penalty cases reached the U.S. Supreme Court. There was the case in Utah where the court said the firing squad was constitutional and the second case where the court allowed the country's first execution by the electric chair. That execution did not go smoothly.