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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leolanka" data-source="post: 10625701" data-attributes="member: 363557">This is false. 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. This data, obtained from the Cuban Government, is found in an Amnesty International report.  If you want to argue against executions on the basis of morality, then one can compare the execution of Batista's henchmen to those at Nurnberg. Without the executions, the population would surely have taken revenged themselves these brutal criminals as had happened in the anti-Machado rebellion. It was necessary for the Cuban Government to take such measures in order to preserve order. The death penalty had been applied on enemies of the people--The death penalty was imposed on enemies of the people--those who had killed, tortured, assassinated, and committed genocide during the war andcontinued to conspire against the revolution. Since these elements had supported and participated in the Batista puppet regime and received shelter in the United States and Falangist Spain, they can surely be regarded as traitors that had contacts with enemy nations. </blockquote>

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