No newsmen were permitted to witness last week's executions in Spain. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, however, was one of two foreign journalists in a group of reporters allowed to travel to Hoyo de Manzanares, where three of the men accused of killing policemen, Alonso, Sanz and Sánchez-Bravo, were shot by a firing squad. Scott's report:
It was shortly after 4 a.m. The scene was the office of Alonso's defense lawyer, a modest hut in the Madrid suburb of Vallecas. "There is no hope," sighed the lawyer, his eyes red with fatigue. He turned to...
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