According to Vicente de la Fuente's description of the method: Roten organized in Barcelona against the good men, the system that today (1870) is followed against the bandits and kidnappers of Andalusia.
[2] In fact, the future dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera justified the use of state terrorism in a 1920 letter to the then president of the Spanish government Eduardo Dato: "I understand that the defense instinct seeks extralegal means... A raid, a transfer, an attempt leak and a few shots will begin to solve the problem.”[3] Many intellectuals and writers attacked this inhuman disposition, such as Ramón María del Valle-Inclán in a couple of scenes added to the second edition (1924) of his grotesque Luces de Bohemia, through the character of the Catalan anarchist Mateo, prisoner executed by this form.
To give the political assassination an appearance of legality, the usual procedure was the falsification of a complaint of disaffection to the side that committed the execution.
[5] During the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911), the law published on January 25, 1867 by the government of Benito Juárez (also called Ley de fugas) was used as a repressive method to eliminate a person or a group of people revolting against the president.
In 1972, the Trelew massacre took place: the de facto government of Alejandro Agustín Lanusse ordered the execution of 16 people recaptured after an escape attempt.