Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sosa Blanco's lawyer, a regular army attorney who had been cleared by the rebels of any Batista ties and appointed just before the trial began, pleaded eloquently for calm justice. He argued that there was no death penalty in Cuba when the crimes took place, that Captain Sosa...
When his turn came, Despaigne was allowed to write a note to his son, smoke a final cigarette and-to show his scorn and nerve-to shout the order for his own execution. On a hill overlooking the range, a crowd gathered and cheered as each volley rang out. "Kill...
Castro is on the record with a promise of free elections a long 18 months or two years from now. "The parties must have time to reorganize," he argued. "If we held elections tomorrow, we would win. People tire quickly. In 18 months, the people may be very tired of...
Marti re-recruited the Lion and the Fox, and on April 11, 1895 landed in Oriente, the rebel lair. Six weeks later, at 42, he died sweetly in battle, and Cuba got its national hero. Spain vowed: "Cuba shall remain Spanish though it takes the last man and the last...
While this idea seems completely laudable, its execution is open to question. For it happens that the plan's originators were officials of the Cambridge Drama Festival, a non-profit repertory theatre of the sort for which the Arts Center theatre is intended. The CDF is certainly to be thanked...