Editing Death by burning (section)

===Extrajudicial burnings in Latin America===
In [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil, burning people [[Necklacing|standing inside a pile of tires]] is a common form of murder used by drug dealers to punish those who have supposedly collaborated with the police. This form of burning is called ''micro-ondas'' (microwave oven).<ref>''Grellet'' (2010) [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/740136-autorizado-a-visitar-familia-condenado-por-morte-de-tim-lopes-foge-da-prisao.shtml Autorizado a visitar família..]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fenapef.org.br/fenapef/noticia/index/17079|title=Polícia encontra 4 corpos que seriam de traficantes queimados com pneus|language=pt|work=O Globo|publisher=Federação Nacional dos Policiais Federais|date=18 September 2008|access-date=6 July 2013|location=Rio de Janeiro|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925094951/http://www.fenapef.org.br/fenapef/noticia/index/17079|archive-date=25 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wordreference.com/pten/micro-ondas|title=micro-ondas|publisher=WordReference|access-date=6 July 2013}}</ref> The film ''Tropa de Elite'' (''[[Elite Squad]]'') and the video game ''[[Max Payne 3]]'' contain scenes depicting this practice.<ref name="A Revista Veja, o PT e as Tendências">''França'' (2002), [http://veja.abril.com.br/300102/p_094.html Como na Chicago de Capone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015082422/http://veja.abril.com.br/300102/p_094.html |date=15 October 2007 }}</ref>

During the [[Guatemalan Civil War]], the [[Guatemalan Army]] and security forces carried out an unknown number of extrajudicial killings by burning. In one instance in March 1967, Guatemalan [[guerrilla]] and poet [[Otto René Castillo]] was captured by Guatemalan government forces and taken to [[Zacapa]] army barracks alongside one of his comrades, Nora Paíz Cárcamo. The two were interrogated, tortured for four days, and burned alive.<ref>''Paige'' (1983), pp. 699–737</ref> Other reported instances of immolation by Guatemalan government forces occurred in the Guatemalan government's rural counterinsurgency operations in the [[Guatemalan Highlands|Guatemalan Altiplano]] in the 1980s. In April 1982, 13 members of a [[Qʼanjobʼal people|Qʼanjobʼal]] Pentecostal congregation in Xalbal, [[Ixcan]], were burnt alive in their church by the Guatemalan Army.<ref>''Garrard-Burnett'' (2010), [https://books.google.com/books?id=BXWwm7jo-hEC&pg=PA141 p. 141]</ref>

On 31 August 1996, a Mexican man, Rodolfo Soler Hernandez, was burned to death in [[Playa Vicente]], Mexico, after he was accused of raping and strangling a local woman to death. Local residents tied Hernandez to a tree, doused him in a flammable liquid and then set him ablaze. His death was also filmed by residents of the village. Shots taken before the killing showed that he had been badly beaten.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/111dfce7fad65c327bccd8abf93c3536 |date=5 September 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128080614/https://apnews.com/111dfce7fad65c327bccd8abf93c3536 |archive-date=28 January 2019 |access-date=13 August 2011|title=Uproar in Mexico over footage of accused killer being burned alive |work=Associated Press News}}</ref> On 5 September 1996, Mexican television stations broadcast footage of the murder. Locals carried out the killing because they were fed up with crime and believed that the police and courts were both incompetent. Footage was also shown in the 1998 [[shockumentary]] film, [[Banned from Television]].

A young Guatemalan woman, Alejandra María Torres, was attacked by a mob in [[Guatemala City]] on 15 December 2009. The mob alleged that Torres had attempted to rob passengers on a bus. Torres was beaten, doused with gasoline, and set on fire, but was able to put the fire out before sustaining life-threatening burns. Police intervened and arrested Torres. Torres was forced to go topless throughout the ordeal and subsequent arrest, and many photographs were taken and published.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/vigilante-attack-idUSRTXRZM6|title=Alejandra María Torres|website=[[Reuters]]|date=18 December 2009 }}</ref> Approximately 219 people were lynched in Guatemala in 2009, of whom 45 died.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

In May 2015, a sixteen-year-old girl was allegedly burned to death in [[Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez|Río Bravo]], Guatemala, by a vigilante mob after being accused of involvement in the killing of a taxi driver earlier in the month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/americas/guatemala-girl-burned-mob/index.html|title=Video of mob burning teen in Guatemala spurs outrage|author1=Annie Rose Ramos |author2=Catherine E. Shoichet |author3=Richard Beltran|date=27 May 2015|publisher=CNN|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref>

In [[Chile]] during public mass protests held against the military regime of General [[Augusto Pinochet]] on 2 July 1986, engineering student [[Carmen Gloria Quintana]], 18, and Chilean-American photographer [[Rodrigo Rojas de Negri]], 19, were arrested by a [[Chilean Army]] patrol in the [[Los Nogales]] neighborhood of [[Santiago]]. The two were searched and beaten before being doused in gasoline and burned alive by Chilean troops. Rojas was killed, while Quintana survived but with severe burns.<ref>Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 1987–1988. Case # 01a/88; Case 9755. Chile, 12 September 1988.</ref>