{"id":10042,"date":"2010-12-29T15:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10042"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:04:15","slug":"cuba-commutes-death-inmate-29122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/cuba-commutes-death-inmate-29122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba commutes sentence of last death inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cuba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10043\" title=\"cuba\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cuba-280x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cuba-280x151.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cuba.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Cuba&#8217;s Supreme Tribunal has commuted the sentence of the country&#8217;s last death row inmate, a rights group has said.<\/p>\n<p>Humberto Eladio Real, a 40-year-old Cuban American, was convicted of killing a man in 1994 during an attempted insurgency raid.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation commuted his sentence to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has had an effective moratorium on carrying out death sentences for years.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, two other death row inmates also had their sentences commuted.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto Cruz Leon and Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, both from El Salvador, had been convicted over a bombing campaign of tourism sites in Cuba in the 1990s which killed one Italian and injured 11 other people.<\/p>\n<p>They were sentenced to death by firing squad but their sentences were commuted to 30 years at a hearing on 7 December.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s last executions were in 2003, when three people convicted of attempting to hijack a boat to escape to the United States were killed by firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, within a month of taking over the presidency from his brother Fidel, Raul Castro issued a decree lifting the death sentence for 30 prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking deal brokered by the Roman Catholic church, Mr Castro has also agreed to free the 52 most prominent political prisoners on the island.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba commutes sentence of last death row inmate. Humberto Eladio Real, was convicted of killing a man in 1994 during an attempted insurgency raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,34,14],"tags":[13818,3901,13821,2000,13822,13820,6323,13819],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-latin-america","category-world","tag-commute","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-american","tag-fidel-castro","tag-humberto-eladio-real","tag-inmate","tag-raul-castro","tag-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}