I wonder if they would have killed Socrates if he proposed a "suitable" punishment for his crimes, as was tradition. He proposed either being given free food and housing as punishment, or fined a trifle of silver.

>He proposed either being given free food and housing as punishment, or fined a trifle of silver.

Contempt of state process is implicitly a crime just about everywhere no matter where or when in history you look so it's unsurprising they killed him for it. He knew what he was doing when he doubled down, probably.