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MOGADISHU, Sudan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Four men sentenced to death for killing an American diplomat said Muslims should be executed for killing non-believers, a Sudanese court report said.
They called their victim an "infidel." Judge Sayed Ahmed Al-Badry quoted Islamic texts denouncing killing both Muslims and non-Muslims as he upheld the death sentence, Voice of America reported.
The four Islamists were convicted of killing American diplomat John Granville and his Sudanese driver in the Sudanese capital of Mogadishu in January 2008. Their trial was in June.
Granville's mother said from the United States she wanted the court to uphold the sentence. Media reports in Sudan said some members of the drivers' family asked the killers be pardoned.
Under Sudan's Islamic law, that triggers a review of the sentencing.
The driver, Abdel Rahman Abbas was killed along with Granville, who worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the way home from a New Year's Eve Party.
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