Edited sentence: Both he and his wife Elena Ceausescu were executed on the 25 of December 1989 by firing squad for the mass murder of 60 thousand people over the course of the Ceausescu regime.In his novel Genocide in international law: the crimes of crimes William Schabas wrote, The allegations concerned mass killings during the December 1989 popular uprising as well as other victims of the Ceausescu Regime".On the 22 of December 1989, Romania's communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in a revolution.Romanian State Television said the charge of Genocide covered the deaths of 60 thousand people