a court in Hanoi sentenced three men to death for trafficking heroin...

a court in Hanoi sentenced three men to death for trafficking heroin, a criminal court official said. The court handed down death sentences for Nguyen Van Quy, 42, Du Van Nha, 38, and Tran Van Tu, 53. The group was convicted of smuggling heroin from Laos into Vietnam starting from July 2006. The head of the ring, Nguyen Chien Thang, was arrested in May 2007, but committed suicide one-month later while in detention.