Yaroslav the Wise perhaps – not so much The Bankova

In 1984, then a judge within the Soviet system, Hryhory Zubets sentenced Ukrainian political activist, emigre, journalist, writer and ultimately chronicler of gulag life (whilst serving time for “anti-Sovier agitation and propaganda), Valery Marchenko to his final term of imprisonment.   Valery Marchenko would die soon after this incarceration.

Despite his known kidney disorder, Judge Hyyhory Zubets sentenced Valery Marchenko to 10 years hard labour and 5 years exile.  In short it was a de facto death sentence for a man steadfastly anti-Soviet, without handing down a de jure execution.