Guantanamo May Become Death Row
The US may resolve its publicity problems with Guantanamo Naval Base, in a Cuban territory occupied against the will of the Cuban people, by turning it into death row.

A revision of regulations for Ft. Lauderdale will now allow the US Army to execute people in its custody outside that detention center, extending the license-to-kill to all military detention centers.

The news did not catch anyone by surprise, since torture and abuse of the over 500 prisoners from different countries illegally held there have earned international condemnation for a long time.

The media and prominent politicians, like ex President Jimmy Carter and German Foreign Minister Angela Merkel, have urged for the immediate end of such gross human rights violations and closing of the base.

Potential executions in Guantanamo have sparked new protests because these prisoners, besides that most have not been formally charged with a crime, depend directly on a military court.

The Pentagon has publicly denied executions at the naval base, although its regulations permit this against the prison population there.

This denial only means that if a suspected "terrorist" is sentenced to capital punishment he could be executed at another US prison, reserving Guantanamo for special interrogations and outside international law, in other words as "death row".