Spain
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The country has been abolitionist since 1995; the last...
- News items in the archive
- 92
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Spain is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 92 news items on Spain, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
NOVEMBER 21, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTYTHE PHILIPPINES. PHILIPPINE LEADER SAYS SPANISH INMATE WILL NOT BE EXECUTED
Spanish Defence Minister José Bono said he had received assurances from Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that a Spanish national sentenced to death by a court in Manila in 2004 would not be executed while she remained in power.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION. EU PASSES RESOLUTION ASKING MERCY FOR SPANIARD ON DEATH ROW
the European Parliament adopted a resolution asking the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to exercise her powers by granting an absolute pardon to European citizen Francisco Larranaga, condemned to death for rape and murder.
OCTOBER 4, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTYSPAIN. HANDS OFF CAIN 2005 REPORT AT THE SENATE
Hands Off Cain’s “2005 Report – The Death Penalty Worldwide”, edited in its Spanish edition by HOC board member Begoña R. Antigüedad, was presented in Madrid at the Spanish Senate.
JUNE 2, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTYSPAIN. ‘THOUGHT IS FORBIDDEN’ OPENS IN MADRID
44 panels with the images of some of the 75 activists detained in March 2003 by the Castro regime in Cuba are part of the exhibition inaugurated in Madrid in the presence of the Euro MP Emma Bonino and City Councilor for Employment Ana Botella.
- MAY 13, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. FAMILY OF DEATH ROW SPANIARD PLEADS FOR RETRIAL
for the last eight years Paco Larrañaga has been in a Philippine jail, and on February 4, 2004 the Supreme Court sentenced him to death by lethal injection for kidnapping and murdering two young sisters on the island of Cebu.
MAY 13, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTYCUBA. OLIVIERO TOSCANI’S EXHIBITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CASTRO’S REGIME OPENS IN CADIZ
to keep public attention on the plight of political prisoners and the repression of dissent in Cuba two years after the wave of crackdowns, HOC, Con Cuba en la distancia and Reporters sans frontiers have promoted an exhibition in Cadiz by Oliviero Toscani
- APRIL 21, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTY
CUBA. OLIVIERO TOSCANI’S EXHIBITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CASTRO’S REGIME OPENS IN BARCELONA
to keep public attention on the plight of political prisoners and the repression of dissent in Cuba two years after the wave of crackdowns, HOC and the ‘Fundació Llibertat i Democràcia’ have promoted an exhibition in Barcelona by Oliviero Toscani entitled
- APRIL 20, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 8, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTY
SPAIN. MPS URGE PHILIPPINES TO SPARE CONVICTED RAPIST ON DEATH ROW
a delegation of legislators from Spain urged Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on to spare the life of Paco Larranaga, scion of a Spanish-Filipino clan sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two young women.
FEBRUARY 22, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTYSPAIN. SENATE HEAD CALLS FOR UN MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
Hands Off Cain presented the Spanish edition of its 2004 Report – the Death Penalty Worldwide at the Spanish senate in Madrid.
- JANUARY 1, 2005SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995.
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995.
- DECEMBER 17, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
SPAIN – US. EXTRADITION AGREEMENT SIGNED
Justice Minister Juan Fernando López Aguilar and United States Attorney General John Ashcroft on December 17 reinforced cooperation on the fight against crime and terrorism, with the signing of an agreement covering extradition and mutual legal assistance
- OCTOBER 20, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
The Spanish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission...
The Spanish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission unanimously approved a text committing the Spanish government to present a resolution for a worldwide moratorium on executions with a view to abolition at the UN General Assembly
- JULY 28, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain's government would continue providing consular...
Spain's government would continue providing consular assistance to Eva Maria Monfort, a Spaniard whose Moroccan husband, Bouchain Maghder, faced the death penalty for his role in the May 2003 terrorist bombings in Casablanca
- JUNE 16, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
As the Spanish Parliament debated the signing of protocols...
As the Spanish Parliament debated the signing of protocols to the European Convention on Human Rights, and the inclusion of the same in the new European Constitution, Catalonian Parliamentary Group (Convergence and Union) MP Jordi Xucla I Costa urged a mo
- APRIL 21, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 8, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995.
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995.
- JANUARY 13, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
The Spanish delegation present at the international...
The Spanish delegation present at the international Yemen conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Role of the International Criminal Court, concluded on Monday, delivered an appeal from Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to Yemeni president Ali
- DECEMBER 17, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain opposes the death penalty for Saddam Hussein,...
Spain opposes the death penalty for Saddam Hussein, but wants to see "a just sentence" meted out to the former Iraqi dictator, Spanish Justice Minister Jose Maria Michavila said
- NOVEMBER 27, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
When the case of Pablo Ibar, who was convicted in a...
When the case of Pablo Ibar, who was convicted in a notorious 1994 triple murder in Miramar, reaches Florida's Supreme Court in December, Spain will be watching closely
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Former Illinois governor and HOC honorary president...
Former Illinois governor and HOC honorary president George Ryan and former death row inmate Leroy Orange visited the Spanish capital Madrid to promote the campaign for a worldwide moratorium on executions through a UN resolution
- APRIL 24, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Spain was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 12, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that...
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that the execution of three hijackers in Cuba on April 11 proves that Fidel Castro "is a tyrant" and "has been one for many years
- JANUARY 8, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of...
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (Federación Española de Entidades Religiosas Islámicas - FEERI) formally requested Saudi Arabia to abolish death-by-stoning
- JANUARY 1, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995
Spain became completely abolitionist in 1995
- JANUARY 1, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
The last execution took place in 1975, under the dictatorship...
The last execution took place in 1975, under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco
- JANUARY 1, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13...
Spain has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms banning the death penalty in all circumstances
- NOVEMBER 13, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
With an article published by El Mundo, Emma Bonino,...
With an article published by El Mundo, Emma Bonino, former EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, reacted strongly to the resolution approved by a commission of Spanish Parliamentarians and Senators calling for a boycott of the Miss World contest by the co
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive...
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive Patty Hearst kidnapper - unless the US guarantees he will not be executed
- NOVEMBER 4, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
Peter Raben, the attorney for Pablo Ibar, a Spaniard...
Peter Raben, the attorney for Pablo Ibar, a Spaniard on death row in Florida, plans to appeal the sentence against his client