Manuel MARTÍNEZ CORONADO
Classification: Mass Murderer
Characteristics: By a land dispute
Number of victims: 7
Date of murders: May 16, 1995
Date of birth: 1955
Victims 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
Location: Chiquimula, Guatemala
Status: Executed by lethal injection on February 10, 1998. (His execution was broadcast live on television)
Manuel Martinez Coronado was a farmer and mass murderer from Guatemala, executed on February 10, 1998 for the May 1995 murders of seven people.
Murders
Coronado murdered seven members of the same family in an incident that occurred on May 17, 1995. However, Amnesty International would later claim that evidence also said that his stepfather may have been the real killer.
Arrest
Coronado was arrested and charged with multiple homicide. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Despite pleas from Amnesty International to overturn the verdict, Guatemalan authorities claimed that he would be executed on February 10, 1998.
Execution
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.
Criticism
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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