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]