Cuba

RetentionistLegal status of the death penalty*

0Number of individuals currently under sentence of death

0Executions in 2022

0Executions in 2021

0Executions in 2020

2003	Last known execution
Shooting	Method(s) of execution
Yes	Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
No	Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
No	Party to the American Convention on Human Rights
No	Party to the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty
No	UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): cosponsor
Abstained	UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): vote
No	UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): has signed the Note Verbale of Dissociation
No	UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): cosponsor
Abstained	UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): vote
No	UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): has signed the Note Verbale of Dissociation
No	Does the country have a mandatory death penalty?
2023-05-23	Last update

Source: Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
*Source of classification: Amnesty International

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Cuba – Committee Against Torture – Death Penalty – March 2022

on 21 March 2022

2022

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Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Cuba

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Cuba has maintained a de facto moratorium on the imposition of the death penalty since its last reported execution in 2003. In 2010, Cuba’s Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Cuba’s last remaining death row inmate. As of the date of this report, there is no record of an individual currently sentenced to death. Although a de facto moratorium is in place, Cuba has not committed to a de jure abolition of the death penalty, citing national security concerns.

Document type NGO report / World Coalition
Countries list Cuba
Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

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