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After two years of preliminary hearings, Meinhof was sentenced to 8 years ' imprisonment on 29 November 1974.

Eventually Meinhof, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe were jointly charged on 19 August 1975, with four counts of murder, fifty-four of attempted murder, and a single count of forming a criminal association.

However before the trial was concluded, Meinhof was found hanged by a rope, fashioned from a towel, in her cell in the Stammheim Prison on 9 May 1976.

It is highly probable that, if not for her death, she would have been sentenced to ' life imprisonment plus 15 years '.

( The remaining three defendants received such a sentence, designed to minimize the possibility of early parole.