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Seventeen members of the PRG and the PRA ( army ) were convicted by a court.

Fourteen were sentenced to death for actions related to the overthrow of the Bishop government and the murder of several people including Maurice Bishop.

The sentences were eventually commuted to life imprisonment after an international campaign.

Another three were sentenced to forty five years in prison.

These seventeen have become known as the Grenada 17, and are the subject of an ongoing international campaign for their release.

In October 2003 Amnesty International issued a report which stated that their trial had been a miscarriage of justice.

The seventeen have protested their sentences consistently since 1983.

After the invasion, United States gave $ 48. 4 million in economic assistance to Grenada in 1984.