Manuel Carmona Ruiz, 35, a metallurgist and trade unionist who voluntarily turned himself in to the authorities, was accused of illegal possession of weapons and executed here on 15 August 1936 at 5 am. Between 1936 and 1956, 3,969 people were executed at the walls of the cemetery, including two mayors, a municipal judge, several professors and the rector of the University of Granada. In 1956 Ricardo Beneito Sopena was the last person to be shot here.