In 2008, Chițac and another general, Victor Stănculescu, were convicted of aggravated manslaughter by the Supreme Court for the shooting deaths of pro-democracy protesters during the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Generals Chițac and Stănculescu were originally convicted and sentenced for multiple aggravated murder charges during a 1999 trial.
The trial had found both guilty of ordering troops and security forces to shoot pro-democracy and anti-communist protesters in Timișoara.
The Romanian Supreme Court further sentenced Chițac and Stănculescu to fifteen years in prison for aggravated manslaughter on October 16, 2008.
Chiţac was admitted to Bucharest Military Hospital on September 19, 2010, for cardiac problems and tumors discovered that same month.