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Capital punishment in Spain
  • 1. When did Spain completely abolish capital punishment for all offenses, including wartime?
A) 1978
B) 1932
C) September 1975
D) October 1995
  • 2. Which document initially banned capital punishment in Spain except for wartime offences?
A) The Second Spanish Republic Charter
B) The 1995 Decree
C) The Francoist Decree of 1938
D) The 1978 Spanish Constitution
  • 3. Who pushed for the ban on capital punishment in Spain?
A) Ferdinand VII
B) María Asunción Milá
C) Francisco Franco
D) Olof Palme
  • 4. On what date were the last executions carried out in Spain?
A) 27 September 1975
B) 27 September 1974
C) 27 September 1972
D) 1 October 1995
  • 5. What method was used for the executions in September 1975?
A) Hanging
B) Garrote
C) Firing squad
D) Decapitation
  • 6. Why was the firing squad used instead of the garrote in 1975?
A) Unavailability of executioners versed in the garrote
B) A shortage of wood for the garrote
C) Public protests against the garrote
D) The garrote was officially banned in 1974
  • 7. Who was executed in Barcelona in 1974 using the garrote?
A) Pedro Martínez Exposito
B) Lluís Companys
C) Pilar Prades
D) Salvador Puig Antich
  • 8. Which Spanish monarch replaced all other methods of execution with the garrote in 1820?
A) Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
B) Oscar Bernadotte
C) Francisco Franco
D) Ferdinand VII
  • 9. Who famously declared Spain the most frequent executioner of the Western world in the early 1800s?
A) Oscar Bernadotte
B) Ferdinand VII
C) Salvador Puig Antich
D) Olof Palme
  • 10. In what year did the Second Spanish Republic abolish capital punishment?
A) 1975
B) 1932
C) 1978
D) 1938
  • 11. When was capital punishment fully restored in Francoist Spain by decree?
A) 1934
B) 1940
C) 1938
D) 1950
  • 12. Who was the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia executed during the Francoist period?
A) Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
B) Salvador Puig Antich
C) Andrés Ruiz Márquez
D) Lluís Companys
  • 13. How many Spaniards were executed by garrotte between 1950 and 1959?
A) 58
B) 1,706
C) 9
D) 165
  • 14. What was the name of the poisoner executed in 1959 in Valencia?
A) Pilar Prades
B) None of the above
C) María Asunción Milá
D) Mariana de Pineda Muñoz
  • 15. The execution of Pilar Prades in 1959 inspired the final scene of which 1963 film?
A) The Executioner
B) The Last Garrote
C) Firing Squad
D) The Spanish Civil War
  • 16. Which Swedish leader denounced the 1975 executions as "devilish murderers"?
A) Ferdinand VII
B) Salvador Puig Antich
C) Oscar Bernadotte
D) Olof Palme
  • 17. What happened to the death sentence of Andrés Ruiz Márquez?
A) He was pardoned
B) He was executed by garrotte
C) It was commuted to life in prison
D) He was executed by firing squad
  • 18. How many executions are reported to have occurred in Francoist Spain between 1940 and 1975?
A) 6
B) 165
C) 58
D) 1,706
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