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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Beccaria's work, particularly in his essay "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764), argued against the use of torture and the death penalty, emphasizing the importance of proportionality in punishment. His ideas were foundational in the movement towards the abolition of torture as a form of legal punishment.

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