WORLD IN BRIEF : GRENADA : Assassins in 1983 Coup Spared Death

The government has commuted the death sentences of 14 people condemned for killing Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in the 1983 coup ended by the U.S.-led invasion. Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite went on live government television to say his government is “committed to reconciliation and Grenadians should now regard this as the closing of one chapter and the opening of another.” The terms were commuted to life in prison. The prime minister said the sentences of eight other people on Death Row for unrelated crimes will also be commuted.