Cuba: "The death penalty is a defense of our Revolution"
So yesterday, the president of the Supreme Court, Rubén Remigio Ferro, threatened the application of the death penalty as a 'defense' of the Cuban regime in his speech in Parliament
The new Law of the Military Penal Code has also been approved, providing sentences of up to 5 years in prison for those who skip military service. "The death penalty is an element of the defense of our State and of our Revolution in the face of the dire threats in which we live permanently ', said the top exponent of 'justice' in Cuba in his speech. The death penalty in the new Cuban criminal law that entered into force on December 1, 2022, has been extended to four more crimes (now they are 24), including that unspecified 'actions against the security of the state.'