Always feel a bit sick on this date. #onthisday 920am 2 Mar 1974, the execution by garrote vil of Salvador Puig Antich a 25-year-old anarchist began at La Modelo, Barcelona. It took him almost 20 minutes to die, as the medieval device slowly strangled him with each turn. Franco murdering to the end
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I read an unsourced report somewhere once claiming Nobel Prize winner José Camilo Cela kept that very garrote as a souvenir. Nauseating, if true, which I hope it isn't.