Sudanese court sentences 4 to death for killing of US diplomat and his driver

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese court has convicted four people in the slaying of an American diplomat last year and sentenced them to death.
John Granville and his Sudanese driver were killed on New Year’s Day in 2008 by gunmen who opened fire from a car.
Granville was from Buffalo, New York, and worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was working to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan’s north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war.
In a statement released by the Granville family, his mother said his death was a loss for the family but also for the people Sudan.