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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/death-row-mans-sentence-commuted.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence against a man who was the last person remaining on death row in the island nation" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-death-row-mans-sentence-commuted.jpg" alt="Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence against a man who was the last person remaining on death row in the island nation"/></a></p>
<p>Cuba&#8217;s Supreme Court commuted the death sentence against a Cuban-American who was the last person remaining on death row in the island nation, according to a veteran human rights activist.</p>
<p>Elizardo Sanchez, the head of the independent Havana-based Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said the court sentenced Humberto Eladio Real to 30 years in prison instead.</p>
<p>Mr Sanchez said Real&#8217;s parents informed him of the decision.</p>
<p>Earlier, the state-run Cubadebate website posted a story saying the court was reviewing an appeal by Real, who was convicted of killing a man in a 1994 raid. Cubadebate did not immediately report the court&#8217;s decision.</p>
<p>On October 15, 1994, Real and six other members of a Florida-based exile group came ashore in northern Cuba, armed with assault rifles and other weapons. A man was killed, and the group was captured shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>Real received the death penalty, and the others got lengthy prison sentences.</p>
<p>Havana officials said the group intended to carry out acts of sabotage and attacks on military units to destabilise the government of then-President Fidel Castro.</p>
<p>Cuba&#8217;s constitution allows the death penalty, but for years the country has effectively had a moratorium on carrying out death sentences.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences against two El Salvador men convicted for their roles in a deadly bombing campaign on tourist sites in the 1990s. Ernesto Cruz Leon and Otto Rodriguez were given 30-year prison sentences instead, leaving Real as the sole convict on death row in Cuba.</p>
<p>Human rights activist Mr Sanchez hailed the decision, adding &#8220;we regret that the (death) penalty remains on our penal code&#8221;.</p>
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