Page "History of Honduras" Paragraph 81

In October 1955, after the general strike in 1954, young military reformists staged a coup that installed a provisional junta.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term.

The PLH ruled during 1957 – 63.

The military began to become a professional institution independent of politics, with the newly created military academy graduating its first class in 1960.

In October 1963, conservative military officers preempted constitutional elections and deposed Villeda in a bloody coup.

These officers exiled PLH members and governed under General Oswaldo López until 1970.