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About Ion Pistol
- Ion Pistol (1 December 1946 – 12 May 1987) was the last person put to death in Romania prior to the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceau?escu.
- He was tried for murder on 9 April 1986, before a 500-person auditorium.
- His lawyer, Liviu Ardeia?, claimed that sentencing him to death would result "not in execution, but in murder".
- The same day, the Teleorman County tribunal handed down a death sentence.
- On 4 May 1987, Ceau?escu rejected his plea for clemency.
- Eight days later, he was executed by shooting at a prison in the Bucharest area.According to Pistol's penal file, he was born in Trivalea-Mo?teni Commune, where he was living at the time of his arrest, and had a fourth-grade education.
- The report indicates he killed his mother Gheorgi?a with multiple axe blows on the night of 30-31 October 1985 and was arrested on 1 November.
- He was taken to Jilava prison prior to execution.
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