Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoevsky. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2019

27 Years In The Hangman’s Noose

By Paul Onomuakpokpo
One of the enduring tropes of human comeback and survival is associated with Fyodor Dostoevsky who gained reprieve from execution at the last minute. 
Yet, the glistering success of the Russian writer in his post-near-death epoch would not have effectively obviated the ordeal of the pall of an imminent death that hung over him before his sudden freedom.
*Clinton Kanu 
But quite unlike Dostoevsky, that tragic hiatus was not short-lived in the case of a Nigerian citizen Clinton Kanu. In 1992, at the age of 29 when he brimmed with the hope of conquering the world, Kanu was sentenced to death for murder. Kanu’s ordeal began when his in-laws were accused of stealing a generator and fluorescent tubes.