Sentence:  For almost two months , the <WSD>defendant</WSD> and the world heard from individuals escaped from the grave about fathers and mothers , graybeards , adolescents , babies , starved , beaten to death , strangled , machine-gunned , gassed , burned . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused