Kammala wannan jumla: Victor Hugo ya yi gwagwarmaya a rayuwarsa don kawar da hukuncin kisa a matsayin marubuci, marubucin diarist, 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; shigarwar da yawa na Abubuwan da aka gani (" Choses vues "), littafin da ya rubuta tsakanin 1830 da 1885, ya nuna hukuncinsa na abin da ya dauka a matsayin hukuncin barbaric; a ranar 15 ga Satumba, 1848, watanni bakwai bayan kisan gillar da aka yi a shekara ta 1848, an yanke masa hukuncin kisa.
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.