2015 Event Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was the first to be democratically elected, has been given a death sentence for his role in a prison outbreak during the revolution of 2011 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Event Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted 2011 Event Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of the State of Illinois, is issued a sentence of 14 years in jail for corruption 2010 Event The last death row inmate in Cuba has his death sentence commuted; the nation is against capital punishment and has commuted many death sentences since 2008 1997 Event Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh 1997 Event Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling 1997 Event Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death 1996 Event Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence 1992 Event John Gotti begins life sentence in jail 1992 Event Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion 1991 Event Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store 1990 Event Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop 1990 Event Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1989 Event Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence 1987 Event Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1987 Event Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) 1986 Event Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide 1983 Event China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life 1981 Event Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words 1979 Event Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto 1979 Event President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years 1978 Event Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1977 Death Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1977 Event Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1971 Event John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed 1967 Event Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence 1967 Event Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1950 Event President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence 1949 Event Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter 1948 Event Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death 1948 Event Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason 1947 Event 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis 1946 Event Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial 1946 Event NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail 1945 Event Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl 1944 Event Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1943 Event 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III 1943 Event German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Event Rauter signs unofficial death sentence 1942 Event Allies in London sentence German war criminals 1927 Event Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia 1922 Event British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience 1921 Event Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1915 Event Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1894 Birthday Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1885 Event Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands 1795 Event Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1587 Event English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
