Thursday, December 30, 2010

Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the last death row inmate

In Cuba's prisons, there is no more death row inmates. The Supreme Judge of the communist state walked to the punishment of execution last candidate in a long prison term. Abolished the death penalty is not so. Havana - Cuba's recent death candidate, Humberto Eladio Real Cuban Americans Suárez escapes an execution.

The Supreme Court of the communist state was transformed according to the Cuban human rights organization CCdHRN the death penalty against Real Suarez on Tuesday in a 30-year prison sentence. The man, a member of an exile organization of Cubans in Florida, was convicted of murder 16 years ago.


Real Suárez was arrested in 1994 when he and six other armed members of the Democratic Party of National unity (PUND) illegally entered the island nation and was killed there was a man to steal his car. According to the website of the government Cubadebate. CU Real threatened the death penalty for murder and offenses against state security.

The now 40-year-old was the last iübriggeblieben doomed after a few weeks ago the death sentences for two Salvadorans in prison had been converted. They had been convicted in the nineties for acts of terrorism. The death penalty is not abolished in Cuba, but no longer applied in recent years.

Last 2003, three Cubans were executed who had hijacked a boat to flee to the United States. The Cuban human rights group CCDHRN welcomed the decision not to execute the condemned. Elizardo Sanchez called her boss but also the abolition of the death penalty in Cuba. In the Cuban Criminal Code contain many events for the application of the death penalty were "more than in countries such as Iran or Saudi Arabia," he said.

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