Raúl Gómez Treto, senior legal advisor to the Cuban Ministry of Justice, has argued that the death penalty was justified in order to prevent citizens themselves from taking justice into their own hands, as had happened twenty years earlier in the anti-Machado rebellion.
Raúl Gómez Treto, seorang penasehat hukum senior untuk Kementerian Kehakiman Kuba, berpendapat bahwa hukuman mati dapat dibenarkan agar rakyat tidak mencoba main hakim sendiri, seperti yang pernah terjadi dua puluh tahun sebelumnya dalam pemberontakan anti-Machado.