Capital punishment in Spain
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The 1978 Spanish Constitution bans capital punishment in Spain, except for wartime offences. Spain completely abolished capital punishment for all offenses, including in times of war, in October 1995.
Issue of Le Progres depicting the executions of anarchists in Xeres in 1892 by use of the garrote.
Salvador Puig Antich
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Salvador Puig Antich was a Spanish militant anarchist from Catalonia. His execution for involvement in a bank robbery and shooting a police officer dead became a cause célèbre in Francoist Spain for C
Capital punishment in Spain
…garrote, were carried out by shooting. Strangulation by garotte had been portrayed as a draconian act by the public after its last use in 1974, when Salvador Puig Antich was executed in Barcelona and Heinz Chez in Tarragona. Capital punishment was common in the Spanish kingdom, and methods used included decapitation…
Undated photo of Salvador Puig Antich