After imprisonment in the infamous Oranjehotel in Scheveningen, Kamp Amersfoort and on the Utrechtse Gansstraat in Utrecht, he was sentenced to death. A request for clemency was rejected. After Luza sent home a farewell letter, the death sentence was carried out on February 15, 1943 at a shooting range near Schiphol. His body was buried at the execution site.