A Judge Overturns the Conviction of Manuel peña Gobantes, Executed by Francoism for His Political and Trade Union Militancy "in an Inhuman and Unjust Manner"

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Convicted in a summary trial in Castro Urdiales, his sentence was commuted to "the scant transcendence of the facts," but he ended up being executed in 1938.File - Trial for the annulment of a Francoist conviction in Cantabria: "We have never been asked to forgive, we have only been required to forget and silence" The incumbent of square number 1 of the Court of Instance of Castro Urdiales has declared that Manuel Peña Gobantes, executed in Marc…

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Castro Urdiales’s Court of Instance ruled that he was convicted “without proof of breaking any law” and in a “unjust and inhuman manner despite the fact that the death penalty was commuted”