Lawyer for 3 US citizens facing a death sentence over DRC coup attempt files appeal

The lawyer for three Americans sentenced to death in Congo on charges of participating in a coup attempt filed an appeal Tuesday (Sep. 17), he told The Associated Press.

A military court in Congo handed down death sentences last Friday (Sep. 13) to 37 people, including three young Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt.

The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and…