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Guilty verdicts for all or some of 130 separate offenses, released on June 28 , 1976 , resulted in the following sentences: Execution by Firing Squad for:
The four condemned men were executed on July 10 , 1976 by MPLA military police. According to witnesses, Georgiou and MacKenzie died bravely, like the trained soldiers they were. MacKenzie, who had been seriously wounded in the leg and confined to a wheelchair, stood himself up on his remaining good leg to face the hail of bullets. By contrast, Gearheart and Barker both cried and begged their executioners for mercy. The two remaining American prisoners, Grillo and Acker, were released from prison in 1982 in a prisoner exchange worked out by the United States Department Of State . The British prisoners were released in 1984 after eight years of negotiation by the British Foreign Office . The prisoners had a chance to leave prison during a 1977 coup attempt, when their guards offered to free them if they would become their leaders in the rebellion. All ten men chose to remain in their cells; fortunately for them, for the coup was brutally put down. A similar chance was offered, and declined, to the men imprisoned after Mike Hoare's attempted counter-coup against President René of the Seychelles . References Footnotes |