Because of his youth Princip escaped the death sentence, as did all but six of the conspirators. He was given twenty years, with the medieval provisos that he be obliged to fast one day every month and that he be placed in solitary confinement for one day each year on the anniversary of his crime. He died of tuberculosis and bad treatment in the prison of Theresienstadt on April 28, 1918, a few months too soon to see the outcome of the world war that his act had precipitated.
