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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.
The Vatican has made numerous statements criticizing capital punishment, and this may be a factor in the debate in Mexico. In 2003, the State of Mexico voted in a nonbinding referendum regarding the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte ( Spanish: [ˈnwestɾa seˈɲoɾa ðe la ˈsanta ˈmweɾte]; Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death ), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, [ 1][ 2] and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. [ 3][ 4]: 296–297 A personification of death ...
Argentina abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1984 and abolished it for all crimes in 2008, supported by the president at the time, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Argentina voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight times, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. Argentina signed ...
Javier Gallego graduated in Journalism and has a master in radio by the Complutense University of Madrid.He hosted different radio programs such as De 9 a 9 y media in cadena SER, No somos nadie in M80 Radio or Especia Melange in Radio 3, where he also participated in the production team of the show Cuando Juan y Tula fueron a Siritinga, directed by Carlos Faraco, during the leadership of ...
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In office. 19 February 1938 – 19 January 1947. Preceded by. Leonardo Torres Quevedo. Succeeded by. Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón. Manuel Machado y Ruiz (29 August 1874 in Seville – 19 January 1947 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet and a prominent member of the Generation of '98 . Manuel Machado was the son of Antonio Machado Álvarez, a ...
Capital punishment in Peru was last used in 1979. In the same year, the death penalty was abolished for ordinary crimes. Peru is one of seven countries that has abolished capital punishment for "ordinary crimes only." [1] Peru voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.