Francesco Carrara (jurist)

Francesco Carrara (September 18, 1805 – January 15, 1888) was an Italian jurist and liberal politician who was one of the leading criminal law European scholars and death penalty abolition lawyers of the 19th century.

[1] His principal work, written there, was the ten-volume Programma dal corso di diritto criminale.

He helped arrange the accession of Lucca to Tuscany, as he regarded it as a first small step towards national unity.

Additionally, he had been disgusted from the five sentences to death by guillotine which Charles II, Duke of Parma had allowed in 1845.

[1][2] Not by chance, just to solemnize the annexation of Lucca, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany abolished the death penalty in his state, as suggested for by Carrara and by some other jurists.