ولم يحكم بالاعدام قبل ذلك إلا على شخص واحد بسبب جريمة ارهابية، وقد خفف الحكم عليه الى السجن مدى الحياة في سنة 1993.
Only one person had previously been sentenced to death, for a terrorist offence, and his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment in 1993.