1.   Two defendants were pardoned before trial and one avoided trial because the Bush administration refused to release key documents.

2.   The governor rejected a suggestion that he could cut his jury service short by pardoning the defendant.

3.   The fifth defendant had been pardoned by President Sali Berisha in December.

4.   Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Constantin Bikas said Greece hoped Albanian President Sali Berisha would pardon the defendants.

5.   The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, can commute death sentences to prison terms or pardon the defendants.