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How was socrates killed?

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He was ordered to drink poison.

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Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock poison in 399 BC after being found guilty of corrupting the youth and impiety by an Athenian jury. He chose to comply with the sentence rather than escape, as he believed in upholding the laws of his city.

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