Cesar’s work instigated a movement founded on human rights that contributed to the earliest abolishment of capital punishment by nations in the contemporary times. They were Venezuela in 1863, Portugal in 1867 and the Roman Republic in the year 1849. Even before then in 1786, the independent Tuscany eliminated capital punishment and in fact, on 30thNovember, it marks a yearly holiday to commemorate the event
Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
Evidence suggests that the death penalty does not deter people from committing crimes. It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later found to be innocent.