"Dear Mum,

These are the last words I can write. 
In few minutes the guards will knock at the door of my cell, 
they will take me in a lift, they will lead me through long 
corridors, until the gallows room. 
Mum, I beg your pardon and I ask forgiveness from the family 
of the man I killed. I'm only in pain for you, I'm already 
in peace. The sentence was right, I killed a man, a policeman 
who was doing his duty. That's why I must die! See how I can 
say it calmly? I, Elena Delafoy, I am sane. The judges have 
established it. I can distinguish between good and evil, 
therefore I'm dangerous, so dangerous that I'm irredeemable. 
Therefore I must die. It is established by Law. What a strange 
feeling I'm pervaded with! I'm one of the few people who knows 
exactly what time her death is. Noon. Twelve o' clock. 
Should I go mad? Well no! It's like this is happening to another 
woman. Mum, you know I've not always been like that. Dangerous? 
Irredeemable? You know that a man came suddently into my life and 
that this man changed my destiny. He came to me with a cigarette 
pack in his hands. Mareshial cigarettes. Those cigarettes looked 
so innocent! There's nothing innocent in him. He kept saying that 
he loved me, that it was for my own sake, so I started smoking 
Mareshial. 
Unfortunately only after I realized that those cigarettes were 
filled with a powerful psychotropic drug, which could  cancel your 
will. He cheated me, he used me, he ordered me to murder that 
policeman while I was under the effect of that drug. He wanted to 
take his vengeance on the man who arrested him for drug dealing some 
years ago. 
You asked me so many times who he was. I've never told his name to 
anybody, neither during the trial, neither to you. 
I'm sure you wonder why. Yes, it's true, I could have my life saved, 
but I didn't do it because I loved him. Mum, believe me, I truly 
loved him and maybe, in spite of that all, I still love him. 
That's why I forgave him. His name is Philippe. Now that you know that, 
please forget it. My dear mum, I'd like to tell you so many things, 
but I hear some steps. They're the guards coming. Now I really have to 
leave you. Please don't cry for me, but I beg you for the very last time, 
forgive me.

Farewell forever. 
Yours Elena."