A Thai court convicted two Burmese men and sentenced them to death on Thursday for murdering two British tourists on a resort island in Thailand last year.
On Sept. 15, 2014, Thailand police found the dead bodies of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on a beach in the southern Thai island of Koh Tao. They were discovered in a semi-naked state with severe injuries to their heads, as HNGN previously reported.
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, two migrant workers from Myanmar who worked at a bar on the resort island, were arrested approximately two weeks later in connection to the murders. They initially admitted to killing Miller and Witheridge, but later claimed that their confessions were made under duress, according to CNN.
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