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Dec 31, 2003

The Death Penalty in Puerto Rico

Capital pun­ish­ment was used dur­ing the Spanish regime. The first ver­i­fied exe­cu­tions took place in 1514, when four slaves were hanged for upris­ing. The first Inquisition court in the west­ern hemi­sphere was estab­lished in San…

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