"Right now there are around 50 people either sentenced to, or eligible for, the death sentence...

"Right now there are around 50 people either sentenced to, or eligible for, the death sentence," opposition leader Elizardo Sánchez said. Sánchez is the president of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, an opposition group that has no legal status but is tolerated by the Cuban government.
His list includes Salvadorans Raúl Ernesto Cruz León and Otto René Rodríguez Llerena, who were sentenced to death for terrorism in 1998.
Cruz León and Rodríguez Llerena – whose sentences are currently pending a Supreme Court appeal – took part in a number of bombings of tourist facilities in Cuba. One of these explosions resulted in the death of Fabio Di Celmo, an Italian residing in Havana.
The death sentence has also yet to be applied against Humberto Eladio Real Suárez, who was arrested on October 15, 1994 after illegally landing in Cuba and murdering a man in order to steal his car. He was sentenced for crimes against the security of the state, homicide and the illegal use of firearms.
The Cuban government does not publish statistics on the country’s prison population, individuals sentenced to death, or executions. Nevertheless, Sánchez asserts that between 5,000 and 6,000 people were executed in Cuba between 1959 and 2003, "most of them for so-called crimes against the state or offences with political connotations."