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Nicolae Ceaușescu refused to recognize the tribunal, arguing its lack of constitutional basis and claiming that the revolutionary authorities were part of a Soviet plot. [7] His refusal to recognize the tribunal did not prevent the firing squad from carrying out the sentence immediately, on the same day as the trial.
Before his sentence was carried out, Nicolae Ceaușescu sang "The Internationale" whilst being led towards the wall. The firing squad began shooting as soon as the two were in their positions up against the wall. [67] Later that day, the execution was also shown on Romanian television. [68]
Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed by firing squad alongside his wife while singing [44] the Communist Internationale following a show trial, bringing an end to the Romanian Revolution, on Christmas Day, 1989.
One of the more morbid but historic Christmas Day headlines: Romania's tyrannical communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989. The execution ...
In footage of the trial, Nicolae Ceaușescu is seen answering the ad hoc tribunal judging him and referring to some of its members—among them Army General Victor Atanasie Stănculescu and future Romanian Secret Service head Virgil Măgureanu—as "traitors". In the same video, Ceaușescu dismisses the "tribunal" as illegitimate and demands ...
Some, including a few Supreme Court justices, view firing squads as less cruel than lethal injections, despite the violence involved The post Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in ...
In 2010, Utah carried out the only firing squad execution of the last 50 years. But states like South Carolina are pushing to reinstate the practice. "Ladies and gentlemen, like it or not, it's a ...
The Armed Forces would be renamed in 1989 following the Romanian Revolution, during which officers and personnel of the military defected to the side of the opposition after a public speech by Ceaușescu broadcast on state television [16] and a firing squad provided by paratroop regiment personnel Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin ...