# How many people have been executed in Cuba since Castro took over?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 23, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634 "2012-03-23T20:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634/1 "2012-03-23T20:15:22Z")

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Title says it all, really.  
I checked the Wikipedia on Castro, and no number was mentioned.  
This would be for all causes, btw.

Thanks,  
hh

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634/2 "2012-03-23T21:07:57Z")

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[4000](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Cuba)

I googled capital punishment,cuba

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634/3 "2012-03-24T04:51:52Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> [4000](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Cuba)
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> I googled capital punishment,cuba

Thank you very much, **Magiver.**

Mods,and all concerned: Sorry, I thought this was GQ.

hh

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634/4 "2012-03-24T05:21:04Z")

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I can’t say I have any better an answer, but I’d be extremely skeptical about any such numbers put out by the US government during that time period. But the Wiki page doesn’t say if that was a number generated in the heat of revolution and counter-revolutionary fervor, or years later when cooler heads might produce less biased data.