India sentences man to death for slaying missionary and his sons

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The man convicted of killing an Australian missionary and his two young sons, by burning them alive, was sentenced to death yesterday.

The court sentenced 12 others to life in prison for the murders of Graham Staines and his sons Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8. The three died in January 1999 when a mob burned their jeep while they slept outside a church in Manoharpur, a tribal village in eastern Orissa state...

"I did this because of the bitter relations with the Christians," Mahendra Hembram was quoted as saying by The Hindustan Times in a letter to his sister-in-law.

"After hearing so many things about the Christians, we decided to kill the Christians," he wrote.

http://www.etaiwannews.com/Asia/2003/09/23/1064281470.htm