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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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