Executed

"I am innocent!" The words came from a young man, his back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot/- that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia.

/-Since, according to Bolivian law, only one person can be executed for a murder, a lottery was held to decide which of four convicted prisoners should die for the crime.