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April 2003 executions in Cuba
On 11 April 2003, Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Bárbaro Leodán Sevilla García, and Jorge Luis Martínez Isaac, became the last persons to be executed by Cuba before the imposition of a moratorium on executions.
The three men, who were convicted by a court in Havana on 8 April 2003, were put to death by firing squad for acts of terrorism in the aftermath of the Black Spring crackdown on Cuban dissidents.