TWO BELARUSIAN CITIZENS CONVICTED OF TRIPLE MURDER APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE

two unidentified men appealed their death sentences by firing squad for a triple murder to Belarus's Supreme Court, a local court official said. "Both men were sentenced by the Grodno district court," he said. The two faced charges including "murder, robbery, arson, the abduction of a young child, an attack on a taxi driver, an attempt to steal a car and passport theft," the Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office said.