داستان کوتاه انگلیسی It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life. "I don't agree with you," said their host the banker. "I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life. Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?" یك شب دلگیر پاییزی بود. بانكدار در اتاق كارش بالا و پائین می رفت و مهمانی یی را به خاطر می آورد كه پانزده سال پیش در چنین شبی برگزار كرده بود. آدم های باهوش بسیاری در مهمانی حضور داشتند و گفتگوهای جالبی در گرفته بود. در خلال گفتگوها در باره مجازات مرگ صحبت كردند. اكثر مهمان ها كه میانشان افراد روشنفكر و رومه نگار بسیار بودند اعدام را محكوم كردند. آنها این نوع مجازات را منسوخ، غیر اخلاقی و مغایر با مسیحیت می دانستند. به نظر عده ای باید حبس ابد در همه جا جایگزین اعدام می شد.بانكدار؛ میزبان آنها گفت: <<من با شما موافق نیستم. من نه اعدام و نه حبس ابد را تجربه كرده ام اما اگر قرار بر پیش داوری باشد من اعدام را بسیار اخلاقی تر و انسانی تر از حبس ابد می دانم. اعدام بلافاصله می كشد اما حبس ابد به تدریج. كدام جلاد انسانی تر عمل می كند. آنكه شما را در عرض چند دقیقه می كشد یا آنكه طی سال های متمادی جانتان را می گیرد؟
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It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life. "I don't agree with you," said their host the banker. "I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life. Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?"
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