Officials in southern Spain have cleared their “last legal hurdle” and will begin exhuming the Spanish Civil War-era grave thought to contain the remains of Federico Garcia Lorca, reports CNN. Lorca was executed by “militia loyal to Gen. Francisco Franco in the opening days of the 1936-39 war” and was one of 114,000 civilians who were killed or went missing during the war. According to the AP, Garcia Lorca’s living relatives have maintained that the poet “should not be singled out for preferential treatment when many other families are also longing for word of what happened to loved ones slain in the war.”