In several countries, more recent executions were carried out for (alleged) war crimes, treason, genocide, or other crimes against the state, most notably the Ceaușescus, who were executed in 1989 in Romania after being convicted in an irregular (and actually illegal) military trial. In contrast, the executions their opponents perpetrated lacked the approval of the Spa… Numerous historians, including Helen Graham, Paul Preston, Antony Beevor, Gabriel Jackson, Hugh Thomas, and Ian Gibson believe that the summary executions of political opponents by the Francoist side, which became known as the "White Terror", was a deliberate policy.

The case of Spain (shown as 1972 on the map) is also complex. Handsome young Salvador radicalized as a youth in the 1960s under the oppressive semi-fascist Franco dictatorship. The garrotings of It was an ugly coda to an ugly regime and a 40-year history of political killings. The last civilian executions in Spain, both by garroting, were those of Pilar Prades in May 1959 and José María Jarabo in July 1959. March 2nd, 2010 Headsman On this date in 1974, in the face of an international controversy, Spain executed anarchist Salvador Puig Antich — the very last execution by garrote. the defenceof the state) and executed by shooting at Forte Bravettain Romeon the 16th of January 1943. Recent legislation had caused many crimes (such as robbery-murder) to fall under the jurisdiction of military law; thus, prosecutors rarely requested civilian executions. There were 8 more people executed in 1974 and 1975, sentenced for … The last execution of any kind in Spain, was in January, 1972, when a soldier was shot by firing squad after being found guilty of murder. Capital punishment was common in the Spanish kingdom, and methods used included decapitation (especially for nobility). According to a pamphlet published anonymously by Crown Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Spain was the most frequent executioner of the Wester… Though Spain’s last execution is often misremembered as that of handsome anarchist Salvador Puig Antich in 1974, that milestone actually occurred with the shooting of five anti-Franco terrorists in three different cities on September 27, 1975. Silvestre Lluis became the first to suffer in private when he was garotted in Barcelona for a murder on the 15th of June 1897 . The last female execution for murder was that of Columba Dagrumowho was shot by firing squad together with her male co-defendant on the 21st of January 1939 in Trani, for kidnapping and murdering a … Franco had come to power in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War, during which various factions had committed mass executions of political opponents. Military executions were still performed in Spain until the 1970s. Public execution ended in Spain with the garrotting of Lluis Más and three others, on the 4th of May 1897 in Barcelona. In 1820 Ferdinand VII replaced all other methods with the garrote, which was used mainly since then, including for the liberal freedom fighter Mariana de Pineda Muñoz and the assassin of six-time Prime Minister of Spain Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.