Editing Execution by firing squad (section)

===Cuba===
[[File:BatistaFireSquad.jpg|thumb|A communist insurgent is blindfolded and executed by firing squad, [[Cuba]] 1956.]]
{{Main|Capital punishment in Cuba}}
Cuba, as part of its penal system, still utilizes death by firing squad, although the last recorded execution was in 2003. In January 1992 a Cuban exile convicted of "terrorism, sabotage and enemy propaganda" was executed by firing squad.<ref name="Cuban">{{cite news |title=Cuban Firing Squad Executes Exile|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/21/world/cuban-firing-squad-executes-exile.html|date=21 January 1992|work=The New York Times}}</ref> The [[Council of State (Cuba)|Council of the State]] noted that the punishment served as a deterrent and stated that the death penalty "fulfills a goal of overall prevention, especially when the idea is to stop such loathsome actions from being repeated, to deter others and so to prevent innocent human lives from being endangered in the future".<ref name="Cuban"/>

During the months following the triumph of the [[Cuban Revolution]] in 1959, soldiers of the [[Fulgencio Batista|Batista]] government and political opponents to the revolution were executed by firing squad.<ref>Along with many former allies of Castro, who did not agree with his communist agenda. Individuals would be executed while appealing their sentences. 
*Silvia Pedraza, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=QCSJ61F4j34C Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 62.
*Samuel Farber, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hmdifpVk3SoC&pg=PA96 The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered]'' (University of North Carolina Press: 2006), p. 96.</ref>