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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".
As of October 2021, 28 people have been sentenced to a reviewable permanent prison sentence, under the 2015 legislation. Five have been women. As of December 2019, after the conviction for the high-profile murder of Diana Quer, Galicia and Andalusia were the autonomous communities with the most life sentences, with three each. [5]
The sentence which put an end to the case was dictated in July 1982. [14] It was proven that Lt. Col. Castillo and his men tortured until death the three detained in an abandoned encampment named Casafuerte and that, afterwards, in an attempt to destroy evidence, threw their vehicle down an embankment, shot it multiple times, and set it on fire.
(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.
In 1999, Muñoz and Ortiz were sentenced to 39 years in prison, but the Supreme Court raised the sentences to 43 years in prison. [4] While Felisa had six months in prison, for covering up the kidnapping and impersonating Segura in the tape. [2] [4] In 2013, Emilio Muñoz was released when he had already spent 18 years in prison.
A former Salvadoran colonel was sentenced to 133 years in prison for the killings of five Jesuit priests more than three decades ago, a court in Spain ruled Friday. Spain’s National Court in ...
On July 22, 2013, the Audiencia Provincial of Córdoba sentenced José Bretón to 40 years in prison for double murder. The kinship, the premeditation and the cruel character demonstrated by Bretón were aggravating circumstances. In March 2015 the sentence was reduced to a maximum of 25 years.
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.