The killers of American diplomat in Sudan sentenced to death.

Sudanese court sentenced five accused of murdering U.S. diplomat John Grenvilla (John Granville). Four of them were found guilty of murder and weapons possession and sentenced to death by hanging, the Associated Press.
The investigation found that the fifth suspect was also involved in the assassination - he was found guilty of selling weapons, which was shot Grenvill, and received, as a penalty two years imprisonment.
All five defendants claimed that during interrogation they were under pressure, and therefore they were forced to confess to the crime. Counsel of defendants said that it intends to appeal the conviction on Wednesday, June 24, the sentence.
Attacks on United States Agency for International Development Grenvilla occurred in the center of the capital Khartoum, Sudan in early 2008. The criminals fired at the vehicle 33-year-old Grenvilla January 1, 2008. From his injuries the driver of the machine, 40-year-old Sudanese Abdel Rahman Abbas died on the spot. The Americans received five bullet wounds, a hospital, but doctors saved his life failed. He became the first American since 1973, died in the Sudan.
Responsibility for the killing has taken a previously never identified the terrorist organization Ansar al-Fiqh ". The prosecutor dealing with the circumstances of what happened, said that the attackers acted with a particular "religious zeal". Shortly after the killing of the terrorists issued a statement saying that an American was killed for "attempting to raise the banner of Christianity over Sudan."
The first suspects in the case were arrested a month after the attack. The investigation revealed that one had to dock the Sudanese at the time of the offense was an officer with the rank of the armed forces of Sudan. After his involvement in the killing Grenvilla has been demonstrated, it was dismissed from the ranks of the Sudanese army.
The trial of the suspects began in August 2008.