 On that day, Ripoll was hanged in Valencia, for having taught deist principles.This execution occurred against the backdrop of a European-wide scandal concerning the despotic attitudes still prevailing in Spain.Finally, on 15 July 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was definitively abolished by a Royal Decree signed by regent Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand VII's liberal widow, during the minority of Isabella II and with the approval of the President of the Cabinet Francisco Martínez de la Rosa.