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Homicide, according to the Spanish Criminal Code of 1995, is a crime which contravenes the legal right to "independent human life". It is found in article 138 which states: "Whoever kills another shall be convicted of manslaughter, punishable with a sentence of imprisonment from ten to fifteen years". The main legal concept in article 138 is ...
First PPR sentence in Asturias. [30] Francisco Javier Martínez Broch: Convicted on 1 June 2021 for the murder of his parents and his brother. [31] Juan Francisco López Ortiz: Convicted on 8 June 2021 for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia in 2018. Received an additional seven-year sentence ...
This is a list of the laws of murder by country. The legal definition of murder varies by country: the laws of different countries deal differently with matters such as mens rea (how the intention on the part of the alleged murderer must be proved for the offence to amount to murder) and sentencing .
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.
(Reuters) -Four men were convicted in Spain on Sunday in connection with the homophobic murder of a 24-year-old nursing assistant that sparked protests in cities across Spain and abroad.
Following the jury's verdict and the condemnatory sentence, Rosario Porto's lawyer, José Luis Gutiérrez Aranguren, expressed his opinion that the jury was contaminated by the media [77] and that he would state this in the appeals that he was going to present before the High Court of Justice of Galicia and the Spanish Supreme Court:
Anabel Segura Foles was a 22-year-old woman from La Moraleja, an affluent residential district of Alcobendas municipality in northern Community of Madrid, Spain. [4] She was the eldest daughter of José Segura Nájera, a businessman in the petrochemical sector, [5] and his German wife Sigrid Foles.
The murder of Carlos Palomino was the most publicised neo-Nazi hate crime of the first decade of the 21st century in Spain. It was also the first time that the Spanish judiciary applied the aggravating factor of ideological motives in a conviction. [10] [12] [4] After Palomino's death, his mother, Mavi Muñoz, became an anti-fascist activist.