BELARUS UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR TWO MEN: COURT

20 September 2010 :

the Belarussian supreme court upheld death sentences handed to two men found guilty of a triple murder in 2009, in defiance of European calls for a moratorium on capital punishment.
Oleg Grishkovtsov, 29, and Andrei Burdyko, 28, were sentenced to death on May 14 for murdering three people and kidnapping a minor during a robbery and arson attack on an apartment in the northwestern city of Grodno last year.
 

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