Hans of Iceland, Vol. 2 of 2 The Last Day of a Condemned

Hans of Iceland, Vol. 2 of 2; The Last Day of a Condemned

IN the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author, the following lines formed the sole introduction to the subject: At the time when this book was first published, I did not deem fit to give publicity to the full extent of my thoughts; I preferred waiting to see whether the work would be fully understood, and I find such has been its fate. I may now, therefore, unmask the political and social ideas which I wished to render popular under this harmless literary guise. I avow openly, that The Last Day of{306} a Condemned is only a pleading, direct or indirect, for the abolition of punishment by death. My design herein (and what I would wish posterity to see in my work, if its attention should ever be given to so slight a production) is, not to make out the special defence of any particular criminal, such defence being transitory as it is easy: I would plead generally and permanently for all accused persons, present and future; it is the great point of Human Right stated and pleaded before society at large,that highest judicial court; it is the sombre and fatal question which breathes obscurely in the depths of each capital offence, under the triple envelopes of pathos in which legal eloquence wraps them; it is the question of life and death, I say, laid bare, denuded of the sonorous twistings of the bar, revealed in daylight, and placed where it should be seen, in its true and hideous position,not in the law courts, but on the scaffold,not among the judges, but with the Executioner! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65215
Author: Hugo, Victor
Release Date: May 1, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English