Making submissions on behalf of the Crown, Grenada’s Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Nelson, who is the lead prosecutor in the re-sentencing hearing of the "Grenada 13", asked the court to consider life sentences for the defendants or consecutive fixed term sentences. Nelson said the victims, with their backs against a wall, were looking down the barrels of two PKM machine guns and a submachine gun when they were executed at the command of Callistus Bernard, also known as Abdullah. Keith Hayling and Evelyn Maitland, the DPP said, did not have the luxury of a trial or the luxury of calling a character witness. The DPP also touched on the execution of Vincent Noel, Norris Bain, Unison Whiteman and Jacqueline Creft, who announced a minute or so before she was murdered that she was seven months pregnant. And then there was former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who also stared down the barrels of three PKM machine guns and a submachine gun. “What was the necessity to liquidate them?” he asked. "They had surrendered…. the defendants’ only motive," he added, "was cold-blooded murder to secure power. He said, as if that were not enough, after all was done at the Fort, their bodies were unceremoniously carted away and dumped in an unconsecrated grave, burned and buried. In terrifying details, Nelson noted that, based on evidence received, Callistus Bernard shot Maurice Bishop first in his head, and when he fell, and began to roll, he then concentrated fire on him. Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com