The rule that regulates the granting of pardons in Spain

is over 150 years old

.

It is called Provisional Law of June 18, 1870, establishing rules for the exercise of the grace of pardon.

It was partially modified by Law 1/1988, of January 14, which, among other changes, included in its article 29 the possibility that

most crimes

, including those that carried the "death penalty" - which did not disappear formally of the Penal Code until the 1989 reform-, could be

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