In 2006, former police officer Rustam Ibragimov was sentenced to death for masterminding the assassination of prominent politician
Altynbek Sarsenbayuly. In 2014, Ibragimov's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Until 2016, Ibragimov was the last person to receive a death sentence in Kazakhstan. In November 2016, a court in Kazakhstan sentenced mass-murderer Ruslan Kulikbayev to death for terrorism after he was convicted of killing ten people (including 8 policemen) in
a shooting attack against police officers in
Almaty. Kulikbayev's death sentence was commuted to
life imprisonment in 2021 after Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty for all crimes. ==References==