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2006 Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court
2003 An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life 1997 Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter 1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 1997 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death 1995 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan 1994 St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years 1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa 1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5 1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime 1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life 1992 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco 1992 Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob 1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner 1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) 1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations 1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress 1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI 1989 Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) 1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case 1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 1987 Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France 1987 Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death 1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each 1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying 1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud 1986 Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa 1986 Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years 1985 Junta leaders Videla and Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires 1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs 1984 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years 1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting 1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud 1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine 1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City 1981 Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years 1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder 1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life 1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years 1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr 1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death 1980 John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges 1980 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death 1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years 1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months 1979 Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran 1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years 1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life 1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death 1977 RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years 1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years 1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter 1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1975 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life 1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens 1975 John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1971 Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense 1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) 1971 U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life 1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa 1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment 1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years 1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin 1967 French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia 1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge 1967 Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years 1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair 1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years 1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison 1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam 1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa 1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery" 1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars 1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years 1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life 1962 Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years 1960 Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years 1953 Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya 1951 Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" 1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1949 Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years 1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison 1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death 1947 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced 1946 Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced 1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1944 Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler) 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death 1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1930 Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced 1928 Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail 1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1906 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs 1899 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds 1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite 1893 Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (New York City) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment 1851 Earl G. Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary 1815 Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal 1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery 1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison 1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death 1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic 694 Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery 399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 180 Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago |
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