On the following day , Ciepliński was transported to the infamous Mokotów Prison in Warsaw . He was kept in solitary confinement for months . The light in his cell was lit 24 hours a day . He was brutally tortured , with NKVD agents personally overseeing the interrogation . Since his legs and hands were broken , other prisoners had to carry him in blankets for meals . As a result of brutal torture and endless interrogations , Ciepliński went deaf in one ear . These tortures lasted for three years . In a letter smuggled from prison , Ciepliński wrote to his wife , " I was lying in a puddle of my own blood , I had no idea what I was asked about and what I was saying " . He also wrote to his beloved son , Andrzej : '' " You see , son , together with mom we always prayed so you would grow up praising Christ , serving our Country , and making us happy . I wanted to help you with my experience , but unfortunately these are perhaps my last words to you . I will soon be murdered by the Communists for fighting for ideals I am conveying to you in my testimony . Mom will tell you about my life , and I will be dying believing that you will not let me down " '' . In another letter dated January 28 , 1951 , also smuggled out of prison , Ciepliński wrote to his wife My Dearest Wiesia , I am still alive , although these are likely to be my last days . I am held in the cell with a Gestapo officer . They the Nazis receive letters from their families , and I do n't . And I would like so much to receive even few words written by your hand … I thank God that I can die for His holy faith , for my Country , and that he gave me such a good wife , and such a happy family life . The trial which finally took place in October 1950 before the Military Court in Warsaw was presided over by Chief Military Judge Colonel Aleksander Warecki ( real name Warenhaupt ) , Major Zbigniew Furtak , Major Zbigniew Trylinski and Lt. Col. Jerzy Tramer , who served as the Public Prosecutor . On October 14 , Ciepliński was sentenced to five consecutive death sentences , plus 30 years . His family appealed to then Communist president of Poland Boleslaw Bierut for commutation of the death sentence , but Bierut refused , stating that Cieplinski and his men " in their hatred of Poland and the Soviet Union , did not hesitate to commit any crime " . The execution took place at 6 a.m. on March 1 , 1951 in the basement of the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa prison in Warsaw . Cieplinski was shot in the back of the head in Katyn style . His body was never returned to his family , and his burial place remains unknown to this day
Katyn
Katyn massacre
Łukasz Ciepliński