Trial And Execution Of Nicolae Ceaușescu

The trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was held on 25 December 1989 by an Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial with an essentially pre-determined outcome created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front. It resulted in guilty verdicts and death sentences for former Romanian President and Romanian Communist Party General Secretary, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu.[1]