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Oldest person executed (20th century)

Oldest person executed (20th century)
Who
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha
Where
Sudan (Khartoum North)
When
18 January 1986
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (Sudan) was 76 when he was arrested on 5 January 1986, charged with subversion. His trial lasted two days, and he was convicted and sentenced to death on the 8 January. On the 17 January his mandatory appeal upheld the earlier conviction, and Taha was publicly hanged at Kober Prison in Khartoum North on the 18 January 1986.