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Manuel Martínez Coronado

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Manuel Martínez Coronado (d. February 10, 1998) was a Guatemalan mass murderer, convicted for the killing of seven people on 17 May 1995. Coronado was sentenced to death for the murders, and was executed in 1998, the first execution by lethal injection in Guatemala.

Background

Manuel Martínez Coronado was a member of the Chortí ethnic group who worked as a peasant farmer.[1]

Murders

Coronado murdered seven members of the same family on 17 May 1995.[2][3] However, later claims made by Amnesty International highlighted that evidence indicated that his stepfather may have been the real killer.[citation needed]

Arrest and execution

Coronado was arrested and charged with multiple counts of homicide and became the first Guatemalan to be sentenced to death by means of lethal injection which had recently been legalized by the government. Despite pleas from Amnesty International to overturn the verdict, the Guatemalan authorities ruled that his sentence would be upheld.[4] The execution took place on February 10, 1998, and was broadcast live as a national television event. It took eighteen minutes for him to die from the onset of drug administration; the sounds of his wife and children crying could be heard by the television audience throughout the ordeal.

Criticism

Amnesty International, which had protested his death sentence, complained that doctors carrying out the execution was a "breach of medical ethics"[5] and that Guatemalan authorities refused to release the identities of the healthcare workers who carried out the execution.

See also

Other executions

References

  1. ^ "AI Index: AMR 34/23/00." Amnesty International. Retrieved on March 3, 2016.
  2. ^ Amnesty International- Rapid Medical action- Manuel Martinez Coronado
  3. ^ En la historia nacional, El Universo (November 21, 2007)
  4. ^ Amnesty International- Document- Guatemala: Further information on Medical letter writing action: Lethal Injection
  5. ^ Amnesty International- Lethal Injection leads doctors to break medical oath
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