Spain's Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to revise the death sentence handed to Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), one of the country's greatest 20th-century poets.
Hernandez fought in Spain's 1936-39 civil war on the side of the leftist republicans against General Francisco Franco. After Franco won the war, 'people's poet' Hernandez was sentenced to death on charges including his 'left-wing' poetry.
International protests led to the death sentence being commuted into a 30-year prison sentence. Hernandez died of an untreated tuberculosis in an Alicante prison at the age of 31 years.
Hernandez' family sought an annulment of the death sentence. The court, however, said it had already been recognized as 'radically unfair' by a 2007 law which generally condemned the summary verdicts handed out by Francoist courts.
Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Feb. 16, 2011
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