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Quotation from On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria
“A cruelty consecrated among most nations by custom is the torture of the accused during his trial”
On Crimes and Punishments, Chapter XII, trans. James Anson Farrer (1880)
The opening of Beccaria's attack on judicial torture.
Citation: "A cruelty consecrated among most nations by custom is the torture of the accused during his trial" — Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, Chapter XII, trans. James Anson Farrer (1880). (id beccaria-on-crimes-and-punishments-q2)
