2012 Event 2011 Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is given 7 consecutive life sentences 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 2009 Event Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment 2005 Event Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, receives 10 consecutive life sentences 2004 Event Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors 1997 Event Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him 1973 Event Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders 1967 Event Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death 1965 Event Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences 1964 Event Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder 1957 Event U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1952 Event Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death 1951 Death J of Oudshoorn, John K Feylbrief, writer (Maze of Sentences), dies 1948 Event Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life 1940 Event Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1927 Event Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences 1922 Event British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison 1916 Event Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
