The assassin Lucheni is brought before the…
October 1898 CE
Furious that the death sentence had been abolished in Geneva, he demands that he be tried according to the laws of the Canton of Lucerne, which still has the death penalty, signing the letter: “Luigi Lucheni, anarchist, and one of the most dangerous".
Since Elisabeth was famous for preferring the common man to courtiers, known for her charitable works, and considered such a blameless target, Lucheni's sanity was questioned initially.
Lucheni is declared to be sane, but is tried as a common murderer, not a political criminal.
Incarcerated for life, and denied the opportunity to make a political statement by his action, he will attempt to kill himself with the sharpened key from a tin of sardines on February 20, 1900.
Ten years later, he will hang himself with his belt in his cell on the evening of October 16, 1910, after a guard confiscates and destroys his uncompleted memoirs.
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