Cuba and the United States<span> restored diplomatic </span>relations<span> on 20 July 2015, which had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War. U.S. diplomatic representation in </span>Cuba<span> is handled by the </span>United States<span> Embassy in Havana, and there is a similar </span>Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C..<span>According to the UN Universal Declaration of </span>Human Rights<span> everyone has the </span>right <span>to life, liberty and security of person. As yet, there is no general prohibition </span>against t<span>he </span>death penalty<span> in international law. In Sweden's view, the </span>death penalty<span> is a deeply inhuman </span>punishment<span> that should be abolished.</span>
