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A group of Basque historians argued that, rather than a Basque Conflict, the situation in the Basque Country was one of "ETA totalitarianism." [ 17 ] In 2012, Antonio Basagoiti, the head of the Basque branch of the People's Party admitted the existence of a Basque conflict, but stated that it was a political one between different entities in ...
2011 memorial to two of those executed. The last use of capital punishment in Spain took place on 27 September 1975 when two members of the armed Basque nationalist and separatist group ETA political-military and three members of the Spanish anti-Francoist Marxist–Leninist group Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP) were executed by firing squads after having been convicted and ...
The prosecution demanded the death penalty for six defendants [2] for their alleged leadership in the murder of Melitón Manzanas. [5] ETA member Iker Casanova , who was imprisoned from 2000 to 2011 for his activities in connection with the organization, [ 6 ] gives their names as Jokin Gorostidi [ es ] , Teo Uriarte [ es ] , Mario Onaindia ...
ETA emblem. ETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [12] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [13]), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [14] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.
On August 9, 2018, Steven Hale stood outside a Tennessee prison as a convicted murderer inside awaited a lethal dose of a three-drug cocktail.It was the first execution of a death row inmate in ...
The assassination, also known by its code name Operación Ogro (Operation Ogre), is considered to have been the biggest attack against the Francoist State since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and had far-reaching consequences within the politics of Spain. The death of Carrero Blanco had numerous political implications.
Louisiana hasn’t carried out a death row execution since 2010, but between a new conservative governor who is in favor of capital punishment and other states implementing alternative methods to ...