Cándido Cartón

Cándido Cartón
Executioner of Audiencia de Sevilla
In office 1936–1939
Succeeded by	Bartolomé Casanueva Ramírez
Executioner of Audiencia Nacional
In office 1940–1949
Personal details
Born	Madrid, Spain
Died	1970 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Residence	Sevilla
Occupation	Executioner

Cándido Cartón (d. Buenos Aires, 1970) was a Spanish executioner of the Audiencia de Sevilla (1936-39) and Audiencia Nacional (1940-49).^[1]

He fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Spanish Armed Forces in Francoist Spain.^[2]

When the war ended, he lost his family and asked to be reinstated as executioner until 1950, when he resigned and emigrated to Buenos Aires, where he died in 1970.^[2]

Accused people executed by Cándido Cartón

• Manuel Gallego Fernández (Sevilla, 8 March 1937)^[3]
• Manuel González Rubio (Sevilla, 10 March 1937)^[3]
• José Galán Bernal (Sevilla, 11 October 1937)^[3]
• José Muñoz Mesa (Sevilla, 5 February 1938)^[3]
• Ana París García (Sevilla, 5 February 1938)^[3]
• Miguel Sánchez Torres (Sevilla, 5 February 1938)^[3]
• Miguel Ortega Fernández (Sevilla, 5 February 1938)^[3]
• Antonio Pérez Cabeza (Sevilla, 7 March 1938)^[3]
• Carmelo Iglesias Muñoz (Madrid, 9 December 1941)^[4]

References

1. Martínez, Rubén (1995). Una aproximación a la pena de muerte durante el franquismo (in Spanish). Madrid: Amnesty International.
2. Eslava Galán, Juan (1991). Verdugos y torturadores (PDF) (in Spanish). Ediciones Temas de Hoy. ISBN 84-7880-297-5.
3. Ortiz Villalba, Juan (2006). Del golpe militar a la guerra civil. Sevilla 1936 (in Spanish). RD Editores. p. 485. ISBN 978-84-934741-8-8.
4. "Ejecución de una sentencia" (PDF). Nueva España (in Spanish) (1548): 1. December 10, 1941. Retrieved February 2, 2011.