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- Gender
- male
- Country
- Guatemala
- Location
- Chiquimula, Guatemala
- Date of birth
- 1955
- Age at first offence
- 40
- Characteristics
- domestic dispute, motive unclear
- Victim profile
- Juan Bautista Arias, 58, his wife Rosalbina Miguel, their children Francias, 12, Jovita, 8, Arnoldo, 5, and Aníbal, 2, and his sister, Emilia Arias, 68
- Method of murder
- Shooting
- Date(s) of murder
- May 16, 1995
- Years active
- 1995
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Executed
Executed by lethal injection on February 10, 1998; his execution was broadcast live on television.
Case record: Manuel Martínez Coronado
Background
Manuel Martínez Coronado was a farmer and a mass murderer from Guatemala.
A land dispute was referenced as a basis for the incident.
The offence
Manuel Martínez Coronado murdered seven members of the same family in an incident that occurred on May 17, 1995.
Amnesty International later claimed that evidence indicated that his stepfather may have been the real killer.
Investigation
Manuel Martínez Coronado was arrested and charged with multiple homicide.
Trial
Manuel Martínez Coronado was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
Plea activity included Amnesty International seeking to overturn the verdict.
Sentencing
He was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
Guatemalan authorities stated that he would be executed on February 10, 1998.
Outcome
Manuel Martínez Coronado was executed by lethal injection in Guatemala City on February 10, 1998.
His execution was broadcast live on television.
Doctors in surgical gowns and masks carried out the execution.
After the poison was administered, it took eighteen minutes for him to die.
His wife and children were heard sobbing in the background throughout the execution.
The doctors then examined the body to confirm his death.
He was the first Guatemalan executed by lethal injection.
The Guatemalan government had recently made lethal injection legal.
At least three more Guatemalans have since been executed by this method.
Aftermath
Amnesty International, which had protested his death sentence, complained that doctors carrying out the execution was a "breach of medical ethics" and that Guatemalan authorities refused to release the identities of the healthcare workers who carried out the execution.
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