In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “convicted murderer executed by the u”. Today it says “palestinian immigrant to the united states”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “convicted murderer executed by the u”. Today it says “palestinian immigrant to the united states”.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Elias Hanna Syriani (7 January 1938 – 18 November 2005) was a Palestinian immigrant to the United States , a former Jordanian soldier , and a convicted murderer, who was executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina by lethal injection . He was convicted of the 28 July 1990 murder of his wife, Teresa Yousef Syriani, in Charlotte . At 67, he was one of the oldest people executed in the United States since 1976. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). North Carolina Department of Correction .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1294636245.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Elias Hanna Syriani (January 7, 1938 – November 18, 2005) was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina by lethal injection . He was convicted of the July 28, 1990 murder of his wife, Teresa Yousef Syriani, in Charlotte, North Carolina . At 67, he was one of the oldest people executed in the United States since 1976. He was also one of the people used by Benetton in their anti-death penalty advertising.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 361158804.
The opening as it stood in 2020
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Elias Hanna Syriani (January 7, 1938 – November 18, 2005) was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina by lethal injection . He was convicted of the July 28, 1990 murder of his wife, Teresa Yousef Syriani, in Charlotte, North Carolina . At 67, he was one of the oldest people executed in the United States since 1976. He was also one of the people used by Benetton in their anti-death penalty advertising.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 935404747.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Elias Hanna Syriani (January 7, 1938 – November 18, 2005) was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina by lethal injection . He was convicted of the July 28, 1990, murder of his wife, Teresa Yousef Syriani, in Charlotte, North Carolina . At 67, he was one of the oldest people executed in the United States since 1976. He was also one of the people used by Benetton in their anti-death penalty advertising.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1174944241.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “convicted murderer executed by the u”. Today it says “palestinian immigrant to the united states”. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2025.
Then
convicted murderer executed by the u
Now
palestinian immigrant to the united states
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
