KIEV Ukraine AP A court in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson sentenced three men to death for killing two elderly people and a child to steal an old radio and childrens' toys a newspaper reported Tuesday. Oleksander Krypakov Roman Yakovenko and Oleksander Makarov had decided to rob a Kherson house belonging to an elderly couple but the house turned out to be full of guests Kievskiye Vedomosti reported. The trio described as repeat offenders killed the owner of the house an elderly friend and a 10-year-old girl who also was visiting. The owner's wife and another visitor an 11-year-old boy managed to escape. The attackers' loot was valued at 69 hryvna dlrs 20 at the current rate Kievskiye Vedomosti said. It did not say when the crime occurred. The three killers are unlikely to be executed as Ukraine imposed a moratorium on capital punishment last year to meet its obligations as a member of the Council of Europe the continent's leading human rights body. Ukrainian courts have sentenced more than 80 people to death in 1998 though none has been executed. sms/adc APW19981201.0492.txt.body.html APW19981201.0838.txt.body.html