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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
The "false positives" scandal (Spanish: Escándalo de los falsos positivos) was a series of murders in Colombia, part of the armed conflict in that country between the government and guerrilla forces of the FARC and the ELN. Members of the military and their civilian collaborators lured poor or mentally impaired civilians to remote parts of the ...
Manuel Díaz Criado (1898 – 7 July 1947) was a Spanish infantry officer.With a reputation as a brutal sadist, he was during the Spanish Civil War responsible for the arrest, sexual abuse, torture and execution of thousands of people in the regions of Andalucia and Extremadura who opposed the Nationalist military uprising.
The Socos massacre, or Soccos massacre (Spanish: masacre de Socos) occurred on 13 November 1983, when a group of Sinchis of the Peruvian Civil Guard in a state of drunkenness, [1] [2] led by Lieutenant Luis Alberto Dávila Reátegui, [3] killed 32 people from the town of Socos, in the Department of Ayacucho, during the Peruvian conflict.
Teguise (includes Isla de La Graciosa and four smaller islets, including Alegranza) Tías; Tinajo; Yaiza; The rest of the islets are uninhabited, except La Graciosa, which contains a hamlet, Caleta de Sebo.
On April 10, 2007, Molotov cocktails were thrown at Canary Islands police patrol craft from a boat of 57 African immigrants, all of whom were later arrested when they landed on the islands. [4] On February 16, 2007, the islands' Civil Guard police arrested an armed man who hijacked a Boeing 737 that landed at Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. The ...
(in Spanish) Crisis carcelaria en Apodaca: masacre, fuga, corrupción – Milenio (in Spanish) Galería: Los 30 reos que se fugaron en Nuevo León – Blog del Narco (in Spanish) En el caso Apodaca hubo incompetentes, ciegos y sordos – La Vanguardia (in Spanish) NL: se fugaron 30 "Zetas" con apoyo externo y de autoridades – El Universal
Las expediciones a las Canarias en el siglo XIV [The expeditions to the Canary Islands in the fourteenth century] (in Spanish). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Originally published "Las expediciones a las Canarias en el siglo XIV" [Expeditions to the Canary Islands in the 14th century]. Revista de Indias, Vol. 6. 1945.