DR Congo spares three convicted US coup accomplices of capital punishment | Military News

Their death sentences over the botched 2024 coup effort have been commuted to life imprisonment.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment.

Tshisekedi issued the commutation on Tuesday, according to presidential spokesperson Tina Salam, six months after the US nationals – along with 34…