1915: Veljko Cubrilovic, Danilo Ilic and Misko Jovanovic, Archduke Ferdinand’s assassins

ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 3, 2009 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1915, three of the Black Hand conspirators who had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo the previous June were hanged for treason and murder as the World War that assassination ignited engulfed Europe.

You could say it was too little, too late. Ironically, the gunman who actually got the Archduke, Gavrilo Princip, was too young to receive the death penalty under Austro-Hungarian law — barely short of his 20th birthday,* a more liberal standard for capital responsibility than even present-day human rights standards require.

In fact, that was true of five of the eight student nationalists convicted; the Slavs’ barbarous oppressor accordingly punished them for murdering the heir to its throne and involving it in a ruinous war with prison sentences of no more than 20 years. Three of the underaged five (Princip included) contracted fatal tuberculosis cases in custody during World War I; the other two, Cvijetko Popovic and Vaso Cubrilovic, outlived the Habsburg Empire by decades.....

[ExGeeEye]

Side note: I had this to say when someone trash-talked .380 ACP "mouse guns".

"A single shot from this one was enough to start World War One."

[nwrep]

What a terrible waste of humanity. And all the ills that it precipitated.

[Jeff Chandler]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Model_1910

.380 ACP

[Srednik]

Srednik does not believe these three acted alone. Srednik recommends the 2014 film “Sarajevo” for conspiracy-conscious students:

https://thestreamable.com/movies/sarajevo-2014

[ExGeeEye]

yup

[Verginius Rufus]

I think Veljko Cubrilovic lived long enough to be a source for Vladimir Dedijer when he was writing a book about the assassination.