Gavrilo Princip sentenced to twenty years in prison for murder of Franz Ferdinand

Judgment was passed today on the assassin of Franz Ferdinand and on his co-conspirators in the crime. Gavrilo Princip was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, while four of his co-conspirators were sentenced to death by hanging.

The scene as Gavrilo Princip approached the car in which the Archduke and his wife were travelling and fired the shots that would prove fatal for both of his targets. (Image: Das Interessante Blatt, 2 July 1914, ANNO/Austrian National Library)

Because Mr. Princip was not yet 20, he escaped the death penalty.