EXECUTIONS

713.3. Alexandre Bezerra das ChagasSilva, 18.On July 11, 1999 at around 6:00 p.m., Alexandre Silva(Alexandre) and his wife Luciana Pórfirio Silva (Luciana) returned to theirhome in the Afogados neighborhood of Recife. As he walked home,Alexandre noticed he was being followed. Upon realizing that one ofthose pursuing him was Willians de Santana, Alexandre began to runthrough the neighborhood in search of help, in light of the fact thatSantana had previously threatened Alexandre's life. Luciana was able tofind shelter at the closest police station.The victim hid in the bathroom of the house at located at 47Uberaba Street. The men continued their pursuit and when they foundAlexandre, shot him fifteen times, killing him.The principal suspect, André Willians de Santana, was arrestedand spent almost two years in detention, awaiting trial. In December of2000, Santana was released from detention due to the excessive delay in theproceedings.According to information available in the First Jury Tribunal inRecife, the most likely motive for the killing was a dispute between Santanaand himself, given that evidence indicated that the two had participatedjointly in prior crimes.Source: GAJOP3.4. Márcia Maria Eugênia deCarvalho and Odete MedeirosCavalcantiAttorney Márcia Carvalho had achieved a number importantvictories in labor courts in Bonito County, Pernambuco. Her clientele wasmostly made up of rural laborers in the Ribeirão and Cortês regions.Carvalho had been receiving threats from local landowners to put an end toher work on behalf of labor rights.On January 20, 1993, Márcia Carvalho was executed while drivingalong a minor road in Bonito County with friend Odete MedeirosCavalcanti and justice official John Kenedy Melo. The ambush startedwhen a car with three male occupants began to pass the lawyers' car. As thevictim permitted them to pass, a man shot at her with a twelve-caliber