There Richmond crack dealers will be executed

for a string of murders-only the second

applilcation of the 1988 federal death penalty

for drug kingpins. Richard Tipton (22),

Cory Johnson (24), James R. Roane (26),

were convicted February 2, prosecutors said

the men killed 11 people in six weeks last year.



[from: USA Today, February 18, 1993]