The Supreme Court has commuted from Cuba, Tuesday, December 28, the death penalty for Humberto Castro Real, the last man sentenced to death in the island, in another thirty years in prison. Elizardo Sanchez, spokesman of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), announced the news to close at the end of Real's appeal trial of the dissident.Aged 40, Humberto Real had been sentenced to death in 1996 for "acts against state security" and "assassination" of a man in 1994 during a landing in the central northern island with an armed group National Democratic Unity Party (PUND) splinter group based in Florida. In April 2008, President Raul Castro had already commuted the death sentence of thirty convicts.
It remained to decide the fates of Humberto Real and two Salvadorans for their involvement in the attacks on the island in 1997. In early December, they had had their sentences commuted to thirty years imprisonment. "We are relieved that [Real] is not shot. His commutation of sentence and the two Salvadorans highlight the need to see the Cuban government to restore the abolition of the death penalty, as in years 40 and 50," he Elizardo Sanchez said.
Cuba has declared a moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, only interrupted in 2003 when the authorities executed three young Cubans the hijackers of a pleasure to immigrate to the United States.
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