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 ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Lawyers for 13 leaders of a coup that prompted the U.S. invasion of Grenada pleaded for leniency at a resentencing hearing on Monday, saying their clients have experienced a "spiritual transformation" in prison.
The death sentences imposed in 1986 on former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and the other prisoners were thrown out in February by the London-based Privy Council, the highest court of appeal for the former British territory.
The prisoners were convicted of killing former socialist leader Maurice Bishop, four Cabinet members and six supporters in a coup that led to the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983.
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