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A 72-year-old Egyptian judge who was famous for executing hundreds of people during the 2013 military takeover that installed current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has died.

After a fight with cancer, Shaaban al-Shami, the former chief judge of the Cairo Criminal Court, was declared dead on Sunday.

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was one of those he sentenced.

One of the nation’s most well-known judges, al-Shami also oversaw the trial of longstanding Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak and ultimately ordered his release.

The ‘death penalty judge’, as he was known, was in charge of executing hundreds of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s opponents after the Morsi regime was overthrown over 10 years ago.

After graduating from Ain Shams University’s law college in Cairo in 1975, Al-Shami was assigned to the Public Prosecution the following year.

Investigating those responsible for the 1977 riots that broke up in cities all around the nation when then-president Anwar Sadat cut food subsidies was his first task. Hundreds were detained before the court cleared them, and dozens were murdered and injured in the chaos.

Before moving up the judicial ladder to become a member of the Cairo Criminal Court in 2002, Al-Shami was elevated to top prosecutor in the early 1980s.

His most notable decisions occurred in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution, when he oversaw a number of well-publicized prosecutions and helped the government suppress the Muslim Brotherhood.

He found Morsi and over 100 other people guilty of taking part in a jail break during the 2011 rebellion and condemned them to death in 2015.

Although Morsi’s death sentence was eventually revoked, he passed away in a courtroom in Egypt in 2019 following years of medical negligence while incarcerated.

Another individual who was handed the death punishment by Al-Shami was Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Islamic scholar from Egypt who was sentenced to death in absentia.

Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s senior leader, was among three leaders who received life sentences.

In addition, Al-Shami denied the Public Prosecution’s appeal of the conviction and ordered Hosni Mubarak’s freedom after his corruption trial.

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