Sky
25th February 2008, 22:47
This is a refutation of the fantastic horrors stories peddled by those Miami Cuban traitors who operate in the territory of the enemy in order to restore the colonial enslavement of Cuba.
Data from studies on Cuba's legal system show that death sentences for political crimes from 1959-87 numbered 237 of which all but 21 were actually carried out. Since the single execution for a crime against state security in 1984 there have been no executions on a political basis. There were seven executions for ordinary, non-political offenses in 1984, one in 1985, none in 1986, and three in 1987. In 1986-87, 11 convicts awaiting the death penalty were pardoned. Since 2000 there has been a moratorium on the death penalty in Cuba.
The application of the death penalty in Cuba against war criminals and others followed the same procedure as that seen in the trials by the Allies in the Nuremberg trials. Had the Revolutionary Government not applied severe legislation against the few hundred torturers, terrorists, and other criminals long employed by the Batista regime, the people themselves would have taken justice into their own hands--as happened during the anti-Machado rebellion--and thrown the society into chaos. It was only the population's confidence in the government's effective and cautiously selective administration of revolutionary justice that kept the society in order. The death penalty was imposed on the enemies of the people--those who had killed, tortured, and committed crimes against humanity during the revolutionary war and continued to conspire against the revolution. These were the traitors that supported and participated in the Batista regime and received shelter in the United States or Falangist Spain and those that feared fulfillment of the promise to the end of class privilege, exploitation, and all abuses of the Batista regime maintained by the overthrown Cuban bourgeoisie, American corporations, and the U.S. regime.[1]
1. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-582X(199121)18%3A2%3C114%3ATYOCRP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-582X(199121)18%3A2%3C114%3ATYOCRP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V)
Data from studies on Cuba's legal system show that death sentences for political crimes from 1959-87 numbered 237 of which all but 21 were actually carried out. Since the single execution for a crime against state security in 1984 there have been no executions on a political basis. There were seven executions for ordinary, non-political offenses in 1984, one in 1985, none in 1986, and three in 1987. In 1986-87, 11 convicts awaiting the death penalty were pardoned. Since 2000 there has been a moratorium on the death penalty in Cuba.
The application of the death penalty in Cuba against war criminals and others followed the same procedure as that seen in the trials by the Allies in the Nuremberg trials. Had the Revolutionary Government not applied severe legislation against the few hundred torturers, terrorists, and other criminals long employed by the Batista regime, the people themselves would have taken justice into their own hands--as happened during the anti-Machado rebellion--and thrown the society into chaos. It was only the population's confidence in the government's effective and cautiously selective administration of revolutionary justice that kept the society in order. The death penalty was imposed on the enemies of the people--those who had killed, tortured, and committed crimes against humanity during the revolutionary war and continued to conspire against the revolution. These were the traitors that supported and participated in the Batista regime and received shelter in the United States or Falangist Spain and those that feared fulfillment of the promise to the end of class privilege, exploitation, and all abuses of the Batista regime maintained by the overthrown Cuban bourgeoisie, American corporations, and the U.S. regime.[1]
1. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-582X(199121)18%3A2%3C114%3ATYOCRP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-582X(199121)18%3A2%3C114%3ATYOCRP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V)