2015 Event Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, is sentenced to eight months in prison after new evidence emerges proving corruption charges for which he had been acquitted three years ago 2014 Event Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, is sentenced in the U.S. to life in prison for providing support to al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks; Abu Ghayth commented that hundreds of young Muslims would rise up as a result of his imprisonment 2014 Event 24-year-old Matthew Miller, one of three Americans currently held in North Korea, has been convicted of unlawful entry into the country for the purpose of spying; he has been sentenced to six years of hard labor 2014 Event Two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, have been convicted of war crimes during the period of Cambodian genocide in the 1970s; a U.N.-supported war crimes tribunal sentenced the two men to life in prison; both men are in their 80s 2014 Event Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, is found guilty of bribery and corruption charges; Nagin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison 2014 Event Prominent Chinese legal activist, Xu Zhiyong, is sentenced to four years in prison; convicted of 'gathering a crowd to disturb public order,' the case is seen as evidence that Communist Party leaders wish to expunge any challenges to the power or leadership 2013 Event In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills 2012 Event After being convicted of corruption, Jordan's former spy chief, Mohammad al-Dahabi, is sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment 2012 Event The U.S. Supreme Court rules that minor's cannot be automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole 2012 Event Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution 2012 Event Three widows and two daughters of Osama bin Laden were charged with illegally living in Pakistan; they were sentenced with 45 days in jail and fined $114 each 2011 Event For appearing in a film critical of the Iran's harsh policies on the arts, actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year in jail 2011 Event In England, two men who created a Facebook site to incite violence during the riots are sentenced to four years imprisonment 2010 Event An additional 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles are sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny in February 2009 2010 Event Iran's Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted of adultery and sentenced to death, faces the whip 2010 Event South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption 2010 Event Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2010 Event Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi minister, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the poison gas attack at Halabja 2009 Event Six people sentenced to death over ethnic rioting in July that killed almost 200 in the region of Xinjiang 2006 Event Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court 2003 Event An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 1998 Event Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years 1998 Event World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life 1997 Event Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter 1997 Event British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 1997 Event Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death 1996 Death Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1995 Event Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 1995 Event 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 Event Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Event Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Event St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years 1994 Event 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa 1994 Event Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5 1994 Event Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime 1993 Event Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life 1992 Event Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco 1992 Event Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob 1991 Event Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner 1991 Event Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) 1991 Event 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 Event British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1990 Event Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations 1990 Event Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress 1990 Event Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI 1989 Event Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud 1989 Event Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter 1989 Event Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1988 Event Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) 1988 Event Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case 1988 Event John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 1987 Event Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading 1987 Event Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1987 Event Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France 1987 Event Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death 1987 Event 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each 1986 Event 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 Event Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 1986 Event U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying 1986 Event Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud 1986 Event Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa 1986 Event Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years 1985 Event Junta leaders Videla and Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires 1985 Event Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs 1984 Event Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years 1983 Event LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting 1982 Event Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud 1981 Event Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine 1981 Event Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City 1981 Event Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years 1981 Event Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder 1981 Event Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life 1981 Event Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years 1981 Event Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr 1981 Event Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death 1980 Event John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges 1980 Event South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death 1980 Event Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years 1980 Event Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1979 Event Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion 1979 Event Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months 1979 Event Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran 1978 Event Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years 1978 Event David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life 1978 Event Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death 1977 Event RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years 1977 Event War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years 1977 Event Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa 1976 Event Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter 1976 Event Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony 1976 Event Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1975 Event Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life 1975 Event Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens 1975 Event John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs 1973 Event Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders 1973 Event Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1971 Event Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense 1971 Event Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) 1971 Event U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life 1971 Event William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre 1971 Event Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa 1970 Event Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment 1969 Event Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death 1969 Event Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1969 Event Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years 1968 Event RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin 1967 Event French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia 1967 Event Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge 1967 Event Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years 1967 Event Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair 1967 Event Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years 1967 Event Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison 1966 Event 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam 1965 Event South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1964 Event Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa 1964 Event 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery" 1964 Event Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars 1964 Event Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years 1962 Event OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life 1962 Event Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years 1960 Event Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo 1957 Event Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Event Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years 1954 Birthday Murtaza Bhutto, born in Karachi Pakistan, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court 1953 Event Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya 1951 Event Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years 1951 Event Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 1951 Event Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" 1950 Event Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life 1950 Event Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1949 Event Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years 1949 Event Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine 1949 Event Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison 1948 Event Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1948 Event Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death 1947 Event Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced 1946 Event Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced 1946 Event 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg 1946 Event Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years 1945 Event Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 1945 Event Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 1945 Event Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1944 Event Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced 1944 Event 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Event Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death 1944 Event 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1942 Event Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death 1941 Event 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1938 Event Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler) 1937 Event 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1933 Event Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death 1932 Event Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1931 Event Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1930 Event Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced 1928 Event Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail 1924 Event Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1923 Event Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 Event Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud 1913 Event British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1906 Event Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs 1899 Event French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds 1895 Event Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite 1893 Event Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1874 Event William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall in New York City convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment 1851 Event Earl G. Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary 1815 Event Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death 1793 Event French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1739 Event 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal 1717 Event German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1669 Event 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery 1619 Event Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison 1555 Event Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1547 Event Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death 1540 Event English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic 694 Event Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery 399 Event Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 180 Event Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
