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1997 Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling 1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death 1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence 1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail 1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion 1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store 1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop 1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) 1986 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide 1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life 1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words 1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto 1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years 1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1977 Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed 1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1950 President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence 1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason 1947 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis 1946 Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial 1946 NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail 1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl 1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III 1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence 1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals 1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia 1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1894 Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands 1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence |
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