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The Spanish Constitution guarantees respect for the essential principles necessary for the correct functioning of the judiciary: . Impartiality: to guarantee the assured effective judicial trusteeship to all citizens by the Constitution, judges must remain impartial in cases that they judge and must abstain from cases that they have no reason to enter into.
Some upper class women tried to avoid conviction by "proving" that the supposed magic of which they were accused was in fact a female delusion. While this was a somewhat successful endeavor on the elite level, the prosecution of these women in fact created the environment for lower- and middle-class women to claim outlandish abilities and thus ...
The conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy, which was in power from 2011 until 2018, neither repealed nor amended the Historical Memory Law but largely ignored it. The Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica provided information on victims of Francoist repression, [ 8 ] but the government curtailed State help in the ...
A 19th-century depiction of Galileo Galilei before the Holy Office, by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. The Inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure where the ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction.
The Prosecution Ministry (Spanish: Ministerio Fiscal) or Public Prosecutor's Office is a constitutional body (Part VI § 124) which has full autonomy within the judiciary of Spain. It is entrusted with defending the rule of law , the rights of the citizens , and public interest , as well as watching over the independence of the courts of justice.
The Spanish Inquisition, regarding its procedures as secret, never disputed Montanus. In a public relations war of the press the Spanish Inquisition forfeited. [55] For reasons of history England and France were particularly receptive to Montanus. [56] English monarchs alternated between persecuting Catholics and persecuting Protestants.
The Trial of the Juntas (Spanish: Juicio a las Juntas) was the judicial trial of the members of the de facto military government that ruled Argentina during the dictatorship of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (el Proceso), which lasted from 1976 to 1983. It is so far the only example of such a large scale procedure by a democratic ...
Capital punishment was common in the Spanish kingdom, and methods used included decapitation (especially for nobility). 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.