91.   Only the emir, Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, could have commuted the sentence.

92.   Outgoing Gov. Alexander Farrelly has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to explain his reasons for commuting the sentences of five convicted murderers.

93.   President Festus Mogae later declined to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.

94.   Petain was sentenced to death, but Charles de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

95.   A British nurse who had faced beheading for murder was freed Wednesday with her accomplice, also a British nurse, after the Saudi king commuted their sentences.

96.   A charge of premeditated murder carries a mandatory death penalty in Bermuda, although the sentence is usually commuted to life in prison.

97.   A co-defendant of a convicted killer whose sentence was commuted by the outgoing governor wants to be set free, too.

98.   A conviction carries a mandatory death penalty, though for years such sentences have been commuted to prison terms in Bermuda.

99.   A suspended death sentence is often commuted to life in prison after two years if authorities judge that the prisoner has demonstrated adequate remorse.

100.   A third member of the family, Faris Abu Sultan, also was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.