Alexander Maslich received the death penalty and Alexei Goluzov was given 15 years for their part in the murder and cannibalism of Alexei Dzyuba, the agency said.
The two strangled and dismembered their cellmate in a penitentiary near the West Siberian town of Rubtsovsk last July and cooked his entrails in a washbasin before eating them.
The judge told the agency that although this was his first case involving cannibalism among convicts, his colleagues from northern regions had heard cases in which escaping prisoners took a spare one, a so-called "cow," with them to kill and eat if necessary.
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