a Novohispanic penologist who was an academician of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua from 1775 to 1820. He seems to have been the successor to chair C of his father in law, Academician from 1746 to 1775 Francisco Antonio de Angulo. Acevedo published in 1770 a dissertation against torture, as being in conflict with Nature Rights and public decency within the Social Body, as well as several other works.
