Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Victor Hugo ya yi gwagwarmayar gwagwarmaya don kawar da hukuncin kisa a matsayin marubuci, marubuci, da kuma memba na majalisar. "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" wanda aka buga a 1829 yayi nazarin azabar wani mutum da ke jiran kisa; shigarwa da yawa na Abubuwan da aka gani (" Choses vues "), littafin da ya rubuta tsakanin 1830 da 1885, ya nuna hukuncinsa na abin da ya ɗauka a matsayin hukuncin barbaric; a ranar 15 ga Satumba, 1848, watanni bakwai bayan juyin juya halin 1848
, ya gabatar da jawabi a gaban Majalisar kuma ya kammala, "Kun kifar da kursiyin. [...] Yanzu ku kifar da matattarar". An yaba wa tasirinsa a cire hukuncin kisa daga kundin tsarin mulkin Geneva, Portugal, da Colombia. Ya kuma roƙi Benito Juárez don ya ceci masarautar Maximilian I na Mexico da aka kama kwanan nan amma ba tare da nasara ba.