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April 28, 2011 / 8:04 AM

Bahrain court sentences four to death

$Bahraini anti-government protesters demonstrate in Manama, Bahrain on March 18, 2011 . Thousands of Bahrainis gathered for the funeral of the demonstrator slain hours after the king declared martial law in response to a month of escalating protests. Shiites account for 70 percent of the tiny island's half-million people but they are widely excluded from high-level posts and positions in the police and military. UPI\Isa Ebrahim$

Bahraini anti-government protesters demonstrate in Manama, Bahrain on March 18, 2011 . Thousands of Bahrainis gathered for the funeral of the demonstrator slain hours after the king declared martial law in response to a month of escalating protests. Shiites account for 70 percent of the tiny island's half-million people but they are widely excluded from high-level posts and positions in the police and military. UPI\Isa Ebrahim | License Photo

MANAMA, Bahrain, April 28 (UPI) -- A court in Bahrain sentenced four people to death Thursday for their roles in the killing of two police officers in March in the capital of Manama.

Besides ruling that the four men would be executed, the National Safety Lower Court also sentenced three people to life in prison for the same incident, Gulf News reported.

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The defendants can appeal the verdicts before the National Safety Court of Appeals.

Prosecutors argued the seven men were involved in a plotting and carrying out a crime for terrorist purposes, offering confessions of killing the two police officers as support, Gulf News said.

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