The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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Great poets and writers such as Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Dostoevsky, Lamartine, and others were among the first to call for the abolition of the death penalty. They masterfully depicted its cruelty and barbarity, which contradicts the values ​​of civilization and progress, and wrote timeless works of poetry and prose on the subject. Their creative works had a profound impact on shaping public opinion against it, resulting in its abolition from the laws of many countries in the latter half of the last century. Today, it is a punishment that modern societies are ashamed of, and with a little optimism, it is not impossible that it will be abolished completely in this century. In this wonderful story, Victor Hugo describes the feelings of a condemned man on the last day of his life, and he does so with the same brilliance as his contemporary, the great novelist Dostoevsky, in his famous novel “The Idiot,” in portraying those feelings. How could he not, having lived through the nightmare of this punishment until the very last moments before escaping it? We are publishing this story for its artistic brilliance, which adds its voice to that of the translator in his call for the abolition of the death penalty, a nightmare he himself also experienced.