Amilcar Cetino Pérez and Tomás Cerrate Hernández were two Guatemalan men convicted of murder. They were both executed on June 30, 2000. Their execution was televised on Guatemalan television.[1] Cetino was 35 and Cerrate was 39. The executions, both by lethal injection, occurred at Pavón Prison in Fraijanes.[2] In January 1996 both men had kidnapped 80-year-old Isabel Bonifassi de Botran, who died as a result. The two stated that they were innocent.[3]

Around the time of the execution President of Guatemala Alfonso Portillo sent his family to Canada to protect them from possible retaliation;[2] the two perpetrators were members of a well-known kidnapping gang.[4]

See also

Other executions:

Notes

  1. ^ "Guatemalan TV Shows Execution of 2 Men." The New York Times. June 30, 2000. Retrieved on March 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Weissert, Will. "Guatemala executes kidnappers on breakfast TV ." The Guardian. Friday June 30, 2000. Retrieved on March 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Weissert, Will. "Executions for the Nation to See." The Washington Post. June 30, 2000. Retrieved on March 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Guatemala televises two executions as they occur." St. Petersburg Times. June 30, 2000. Retrieved on March 4, 2016.
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