Humanist narrative against the death penalty

Victor Hugo is committed against the death penalty. This book is remarkable for advocates of the abolition of the death penalty. This is a biographical account of the last weeks of a condemned to the guillotine in France this early 19th century. What violent crime committed the condemned? We do not know. About exceeds the crime. The man, the Christian knows, the redemption of a possibility offered to him until his last breath ("The Good Thief").

Victor Hugo, while taking vis-à-vis Christianity distances, standing on the ground in human history, grips us in this remarkable short.