History Hop Tags - Sentenced

399-02-15

Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth and of impiety

694-11-09

Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery

1540-06-29

English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic

1555-09-30

Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic

1619-05-18

Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1669-12-20

1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery

1717-01-14

German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam

1718-06-26

Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

1720-11-28

Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution

1739-09-01

35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1793-01-16

French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution

1815-10-12

Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death

1834-03-18

Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

1851-04-15

Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary

1859-09-17

James Donnelly is sentenced to hang for murdering Patrick Farrell, but a petition for clemency reduces his sentence to 7 years in Kingston Penitentiary

1873-11-19

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment

1893-02-09

Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud

1895-05-25

Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency

1899-09-09

French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds

1900-08-29

Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy, is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment; he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901

1902-10-10

American outlaw Tom Horn's murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death

1902-11-30

American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

1906-12-01

Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 yrs

1913-04-03

British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail

1921-01-30

French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death

1923-06-06

Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison

1923-06-21

Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud

1923-11-22

Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death

1924-04-01

Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted

1928-10-06

Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail

1930-12-24

Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced

1931-10-17

Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

1931-10-24

Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

1932-03-01

12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.

1932-07-27

Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death

1933-10-12

Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment

1933-12-23

Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death

1936-07-18

Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison

1937-01-30

2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death

1938-05-06

Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)

1941-03-04

18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague

1941-12-02

American mobster Louis Buchalter is sentenced to death along with his lieutenants Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone

1942-12-25

Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death

1944-02-29

5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death

1944-03-16

Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death

1944-05-08

33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death

1944-12-29

Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced

1945-03-11

Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death

1945-09-10

Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis

1945-09-19

Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London

1946-06-26

Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years

1946-09-30

Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial

1946-10-01

12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg

1946-11-28

Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to death sentenced

1947-11-12

Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced

1948-07-03

Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death, California; the execution didn't happen until 1960

1948-11-12

Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1949-02-08

Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

1949-10-06

Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine

1949-10-31

Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment

1950-03-01

Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)

1950-10-25

Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

1951-01-18

Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"

1951-04-05

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death

1951-09-17

Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years

1953-04-08

Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with Mau Mau and sentenced to 7 years in Kenya

1953-10-16

Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)

1957-10-05

Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years

1957-10-08

Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)

1959-01-13

French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death

1960-01-20

Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo

1961-12-21

Gangster Joe Gallo is sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for extortion

1962-05-14

Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

1962-05-23

OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life

1964-03-12

Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years

1964-03-14

Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder

1964-03-27

Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars

1964-04-16

9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"

1964-06-12

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1964-07-17

ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace

1964-07-26

US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud

1965-04-01

South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1966-05-06

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.

1966-10-25

6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam

1967-01-18

Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1967-04-19

Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years

1967-06-05

Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair

1967-06-25

Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years

1967-06-29

Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge

1967-11-17

French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia

1968-05-14

RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

1969-01-27

Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

1969-04-23

Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy

1969-05-21

Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet

1970-12-22

Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment

1971-03-03

Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa

1971-03-31

William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre

1971-04-05

US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life

1971-04-19

Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

1971-06-29

Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense

1973-02-05

Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

1973-02-25

Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

1975-02-21

John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs

1975-08-24

Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens

1975-12-17

Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Ford's life

1976-01-15

Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford

1976-06-28

Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war

1976-07-19

Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony

1976-09-24

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter

1977-02-08

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges

1977-09-14

Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa

1977-12-14

War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years

1977-12-20

RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years

1978-03-18

Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death

1978-06-12

David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life

1978-07-13

Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

1979-02-20

11 loyalists known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast

1979-05-13

Shah of Iran & family sentenced to death in Teheran

1979-06-11

Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months

1979-07-10

Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion

1980-01-18

Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000

1980-07-09

Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years

1980-09-17

South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death

1980-10-06

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months inprisonment on assault charges

1981-01-25

Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death

1981-03-20

Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years

1981-03-20

Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr

1981-07-22

Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life

1981-08-24

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder

1981-09-28

Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City

1981-11-05

Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine

1982-07-16

Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud

1982-08-06

Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa

1983-08-19

LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting

1984-09-04

Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years

1985-03-16

Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs

1985-12-10

Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires

1986-05-15

Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years

1986-05-19

Anti-apartheid activist HClane Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr

1986-06-25

Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud

1986-08-28

US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1986-09-02

Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi

1986-12-19

Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500

1987-01-13

Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1987-06-12

Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death

1987-07-04

Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France

1987-10-20

Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail

1987-12-18

Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading

1988-04-25

John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem

1988-06-17

Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1988-12-30

Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)

1989-01-30

Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident

1989-02-13

Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

1989-03-23

Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter

1989-10-24

Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

1990-05-17

Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI

1990-06-11

Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

1990-11-21

Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1991-03-14

English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1991-05-14

Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1991-11-27

Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)

1991-12-10

Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1992-03-26

Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington

1992-04-01

Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation

1992-12-01

Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco

1993-05-21

Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life

1994-02-05

Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime

1994-04-20

Danny Harold Rolling sentenced to death in Florida for killing 5

1994-05-11

6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa

1994-06-08

Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years

1994-07-08

St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years

1994-07-13

Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan

1994-07-29

Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced

1995-02-06

Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge and sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison

1995-06-27

Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland

1995-10-17

Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000

1997-08-14

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death

1997-10-24

Marv Albert sentenced in assault case

1997-10-31

British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life for the death of Matthew Eappen 8½ months (judge changes to time served)

1998-01-08

World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

1998-02-06

Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

1998-05-27

Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

1998-06-04

Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

2001-02-18

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

2003-02-27

Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison

2004-07-17

Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

2005-08-18

Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.

2006-05-03

Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.

2006-11-05

Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

2008-12-05

OJ Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery

2009-04-07

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

2011-03-22

Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation

2011-12-15

Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003

2012-03-21

Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982

2012-10-06

Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

2013-11-14

Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes

2014-07-04

Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors

2014-10-21

Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

2014-11-11

The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison

2016-04-28

Dennis Hastert, ex-US House speaker, sentenced to 15 months in jail

2017-01-11

Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre

2017-04-19

Etan Patz Killer Sentenced To 25 Years To Life

1915-05-01

Joan Rodker, Dying Day: Part 1: Mr. Skipling is Sentenced to Death

1930-05-16

Titus Popovici, Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1958-05-09

Cristian Sofron, Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1973-06-13

Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)

1982-04-05

Melanie X., Sentenced

180-07-17

Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death as Christians in Carthage

1994-11-30

Titus Popovici, Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

2002-10-09

Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)

2009-02-19

Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist for the band Sentenced (b.1974)

2010-12-27

Joan Rodker, Dying Day: Part 1: Mr. Skipling is Sentenced to Death