Starvation

:This article is about extreme malnutrition. For the usage pertaining to glaciers, see starvation (glaciology).

Capital punishment

Starvation has always been a means to carry a death sentence. From the beginning of civilization through to the Middle Ages people were immured and starved to death.

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Rajmund Kolbe, a Polish friar, offered his life to save another inmate sentenced to death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was starved along with another nine inmates. After two weeks of starvation he and three other inmates were still alive and executed with injections of phenol.

Related Topics:
Rajmund Kolbe - Auschwitz concentration camp - Phenol

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Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons and other members of his family were immured in the Muda, a tower of Pisa, and starved to death in the thirteenth century. Dante, his contemporary, wrote about Gherardesca in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy.

Related Topics:
Ugolino della Gherardesca - Muda - Pisa - Thirteenth century - Dante - Divine Comedy

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