Rather than surrender to prison authorities, Amberg and the second prisoner chose to commit suicide.
Often, prisoners would choose to become a "snitch" to get away from their tormentors.
Later on, political prisoners chosen and later on, prisoners from other groups.
The prisoner has the privilege of replying and may choose some member of the staff to represent him as counsel.
They allow the prisoner to choose lethal injection as an alternative method.
If the prisoner chooses that door, he is deemed guilty and the tiger will kill him.
That this prisoner chose to ignore them as a form of defiance, not escape or surrender.
In the absence of anything else, some prisoners chose to drink their own urine.
No prisoner chose this method and it fell out of practice in 1888.
These were quite large, and some prisoners chose to share with two others rather than face solitude.
