In the United States, nearly half of all murder cases go unsolved. In a piece for the New York Times, German Lopez takes a ...

Someone murdered Raymel Atkins in Louisville, Ky., in 2023. More than a year later, his mother and sister don’t know who did ...

Although early U.S. laws authorized executions, the founders greatly admired a now little-known Italian writer, Cesare Beccaria, who fervently opposed capital punishment.

But decisive in its influence on the Founding Fathers was Cesare Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments (1764).

On the Continent, a movement to restrict capital punishment to serious crimes had been under way for decades, largely under the influence of the Italian reformer Cesare Beccaria, who argued that ...

In 1764, the Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria described capital punishment as a “war of the whole nation against a citizen whose destruction they consider necessary.” ...

Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, a famous Italian criminologist and jurist, left behind a valuable catalogue of treatises on justice and fairness. At the heels of multiple incidents of mob justice and ...

Crescendo by The Rug Company takes place from 7 to 11 April 2025 at Teatro Gerolamo, Piazza Cesare Beccaria 8, 20122 Milan, Italy.

It also expressed concerns about overcrowding in Italian prisons and its impact on detainees’ human rights, highlighting the prevalence of systemic racism, and noted instances of torture and ...

In addition to the 13 guards, 12 of whom work at the Cesare Beccaria juvenile detention centre in Milan, eight other officers have been suspended, prosecutors said in a statement.

Earthquake at the Cesare Beccaria juvenile prison in Milan: 13 penitentiary police officers , of which 12 are still on duty in the facility, were arrested this morning at dawn by the police ...