{"id":5495,"date":"2012-08-20T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:13:01","slug":"jarabo-the-last-spanish-condemned-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/jarabo-the-last-spanish-condemned-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarabo, the last Spanish condemned man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hace algunos d\u00edas falleci\u00f3 un gran actor espa\u00f1ol, Sancho Gracia. Su voz y su imagen est\u00e1n asociadas a mi ni\u00f1ez, ya que de peque\u00f1a no sol\u00eda perderme ni uno solo de los cap\u00edtulos de la serie que lo encumbr\u00f3 a la fama: Curro Jim\u00e9nez. Serie que curiosamente estoy viendo estos d\u00edas. Hablando con un amigo, y repasando su filmograf\u00eda, me coment\u00f3 que Sancho hab\u00eda dado vida en otra serie a uno de los m\u00e1s famosos asesinos de la Espa\u00f1a de Franco: Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Manuel Pablo de la Cruz Jarabo P\u00e9rez-Moris, conocido simplemente como Jarabo.<\/p>\n

Jarabo fue el \u00faltimo culpable condenado a la pena capital, cuando en Espa\u00f1a todav\u00eda se aplicaba la pena de muerte. Fue condenado por el sangriento asesinato de cuatro personas, entre las cuales hab\u00eda una mujer embarazada. Se dice que era un joven mujeriego, bastante atractivo, que vivi\u00f3 a costa de su familia hasta que dilapid\u00f3 su fortuna. Su romance con una mujer casada, y el anillo de diamantes que ella le prest\u00f3 para cubrir deudas, fueron el inicio de la tragedia. Jarabo hab\u00eda empe\u00f1ado la joya, y no ten\u00eda dinero para recuperarla cuando su amante se la pidi\u00f3 en una comprometida y apasionada carta. Tras dejar tambi\u00e9n en prenda la carta que ella le escribiese, y ante la falta de liquidez, decidi\u00f3 resolver el asunto a su manera.<\/p>\n

Tras dirigirse a la casa de los propietarios de la casa de empe\u00f1o, asesin\u00f3 a sangre fr\u00eda a la criada, y los due\u00f1os de la casa. No dud\u00f3 en modificar la escena del crimen para que pareciese un homicidio pasional, y tras ingerir bastante alcohol, pas\u00f3 la noche durmiendo en aquel improvisado pante\u00f3n. Al d\u00eda siguiente se dirigi\u00f3 a la tienda de empe\u00f1o, y mat\u00f3 al segundo propietario, \u00fanico involucrado que quedaba vivo. Fue detenido un d\u00eda m\u00e1s tarde, al recoger el traje que manchado de sangre hab\u00eda dejado en la tintorer\u00eda. Inicialmente lo neg\u00f3 todo, pero termin\u00f3 confesando que hab\u00eda matado por amor, para recuperar la joya y la carta de la \u00fanica mujer que logr\u00f3 querer en su vida. Sin embargo, no lo consigui\u00f3.<\/p>\n

El crimen tuvo un enorme impacto en la sociedad espa\u00f1ola, la prensa lleg\u00f3 a publicar coleccionables con esta historia. El 4 de julio de 1959, Jarabo fue el \u00faltimo ajusticiado por garrote vil en nuestro pa\u00eds. Quiz\u00e1 por eso perdura a\u00fan su cruel leyenda.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_lQvD9uOHw&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Some days ago a great Spanish actor, Sancho Gracia, died. His voice and his image are associated with my childhood, because when I was a child I never lost any episode of the series that made him famous: Curro Jimenez. Curiously, I\u2019m watching it these days. Speaking with a friend, and revising his movies, he told me that Sancho had given life in another series to one of the most famous murderers of Franco’s Spain: Jose Maria Manuel\u00a0 Manuel Pablo de la Cruz Jarabo Perez-Moris, simply known as Jarabo.<\/p>\n

Jarabo was the last culprit condemned to the death penalty, when it was still applied in Spain. He was condemned because bloody murder of four persons, being a pregnant woman one of them. It is said that he was a womanizer, very attractive, who sponged off his family until he squandered his fortune. His romance with a married woman, and the diamond ring that she gave him to cover debts, were the beginning of the tragedy. Jarabo had pawned the jewel, and didn\u2019t have money to recover it when his lover asked him for it in an awkward and passionate letter. After leaving the letter she wrote him as a pledge too, and not having cash enough, he decided to solve the situation his way.<\/p>\n

After going to the pawnshop owner\u2019s house, he murdered in cold blood the servant, and the house owners. He didn\u2019t hesitate to modify the scene of the crime in order to make it look like a crime of passion, and after drinking quite a lot of alcohol, he spent the night sleeping in that improvised pantheon. The following day he went to the pawnshop, and killed the second owner, the only witness still alive.<\/p>\n

He was arrested one day later, while collecting the blood stained suit he had left in the dry cleaner’s. He first denied everything, but he ended up by confessing that he had killed for love, to recover the jewel and the letter of the only woman he had loved in his life. Nevertheless, he didn\u2019t get them.<\/p>\n

The crime had an enormous impact in the Spanish society, the press published collectibles with this history. On July 4, 1959, Jarabo was the last executed convict with garrote vil in our country. Probably because of that, his cruel legend still lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hace algunos d\u00edas falleci\u00f3 un gran actor espa\u00f1ol, Sancho Gracia. Su voz y su imagen est\u00e1n asociadas a mi ni\u00f1ez, ya que de peque\u00f1a no sol\u00eda perderme ni uno solo de los cap\u00edtulos de la serie que lo encumbr\u00f3 a la fama: Curro Jim\u00e9nez. Serie que curiosamente estoy viendo estos d\u00edas. Hablando con un amigo…<\/p>\n

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