The Last Day of a Condemned Man (French: Le Dernier Jour d'un CondamnE) is a short novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. The novel recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings that the death penalty should be abolished.
At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author, there was nothing but the following lines.
