Mass execution (nonfiction)

One of the mass graves discovered in an excavation from July–August of 2014 at Estépar (Burgos). Dating from the start of the Spanish Civil War, the grave contains twenty-six republicans who were killed by nationalists in August-September 1936.

Mass execution is the deliberate killing of large numbers of people who cannot save themselves.

Nonfiction cross-reference

Nine emigrants go to the guillotine in 1793.

• Maximilien Robespierre (nonfiction)
• The Terror (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• National Razor