Cuban journalist criticizes sanctions against murderers and calls for severity: "The just sentence cannot be less than 30 years."

A Cuban journalist shared a text on her social media in which she criticizes the sanctions imposed in Cuba on criminals who commit violent acts, which in her opinion are very lenient.

Iraida Calzadilla, a journalism professor at the University of Havana, questions why the maximum penalty is not applied to murderers, or at least a sentence of 30 to 40 years.

"They are sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment considering a series of mitigating factors, as if the crime had them, as if taking a life had any justification," she stated on her Facebook wall.

Iraida revealed that she speaks from pain, as her family also suffered a murder some time ago; therefore, she demands the maximum penalty for these cases and that justice be swift when the evidence is irrefutable.

"Nobody has the right to devastate a family," she emphasized.

"Killers to whom not even 30 years are applied. They get 25, which ends up being 15 for 'good behavior'. They also get conjugal visits and other benefits. No one can deny what I'm saying. I know this well and can prove it," he asserted.

The retired journalist also criticized the lawyers who defend criminals and try to reduce their culpability, "confessed murderers who have taken a life and leave the family shattered."

Calzadilla pointed out that those who experience the tragedy of losing a loved one must face the drama with a deep sorrow that never fades in the soul.

"I ask for justice. Harsh justice in trials where the facts are proven. Where the act of horror has been confirmed and to kill and then kill again with malice, despite the desperate pleas that the victims surely made for their lives. We must think about all the brutality that preceded each attack," she stated.

"I ask for a fair sentence. And for the murderers, a fair sentence cannot be less than 30 years and should not allow reductions for supposed 'good behavior.' In their prison, they can breathe, live, and even love. The dead do not come back. They, the murderers, decided that they would not breathe, that they would not live, that they would not love. They decided that they would not return," he concluded.