Amilcar Cetino Perez and Tomas Cerrate Hernandez

Luis Amilcar Cetino Perez and Tomas Cerrate Hernandez 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 Pavon 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. 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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