The Spanish government has overturned the Francoist sentence that condemned the anarchist Salvador Puig Antich to death 50 years ago.
He was executed in the notorious La Model prison in Barcelona on March 2, 1974, and was the last prisoner to be put to death by garrote – a device that strangles the victim – by the regime.
The Minister of Territory and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, on Wednesday presented the family of Puig Antich with a declaration of “recognition and reparation” as a victim of the Francoist regime.
