Three Americans are sentenced to death in the Congo for their roles in a fail coup
A military court on Friday sentenced 37 defendants to death for their roles in the failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May , including three citizens of the United States. On May 19, armed men took over the presidential office in Kinshasa for a short while before security authorities assassinated their leader, Christian Malanga , a politician from Congo who was living in the United States . Marcel Malanga, his son, and Tyler Thompson , a friend of Marcel's who played football with him in high school in Utah, were two of the Americans on trial. They're both in their 20s. See Here Christian Malanga's business associate Benjamin Zalman-Polun was the third American. All three received the death penalty in a decision that was read aloud on television after being convicted guilty of terrorism, criminal conspiracy, and other offences. Malanga had already informed the court that his father had threatened to murder him if he didn't take part. In...