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280 jurors found the defendant guilty while 221 found him innocent The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the philosopher's guilt of two charges: asebeia ( impiety ) against the pantheon of Athens , and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates : "failing to acknowledge the gods ...
The trial of Socrates took place in 399 BC. Attended by the Ancient Greek philosophers Plato (who was a student of Socrates') and Xenophon, it resulted in the death of Socrates, who was sentenced to drink the poison hemlock. The trial is chronicled in the Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
Socrates was visited by friends in his last night in prison. His discussion with them gave rise to Plato's Crito and Phaedo. [68] Socrates was given the chance to offer alternative punishments for himself after being found guilty. He could have requested permission to flee Athens and live in exile, but he did not do so.
A jury found a suburban Seattle police officer guilty of murder Thursday in the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man outside a convenience store, marking the first conviction under a Washington ...
A serial criminal has been found guilty of murdering a taxi driver in an unprovoked attack after he failed to give him a cigarette. Steven Greig was already in prison for seriously assaulting Mark ...
The Apology of Socrates to the Jury (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους πρὸς τοὺς Δικαστάς), by Xenophon of Athens, is a Socratic dialogue about the legal defence that the philosopher Socrates presented at his trial for the moral corruption of Athenian youth; and for asebeia against the pantheon of Athens; judged guilty, Socrates was sentenced to death.
Isaiah Nunez, 18, pleaded guilty in the death of 17-year-old Zechariah Trevino. He was also sentenced to 15 years for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for shooting Trevino’s cousin.
The Apology of Socrates (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous; Latin: Apologia Socratis), written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates (469–399 BC) spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC.