3 men are executed in U.S. in 6-hr. span

Three men - one of Utah's "Hi-Fi" torture killers, who forcedhis victims to drink cleaning fluid, and two accomplices to murders -were executed Friday in the United States. It was the most on asingle day since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in1976.

Five men in all were to have died, but two won stays - one ofthem just 2 1/2 hours before he was to have walked to the electricchair.

John Healey, executive director in the United States of theLondon-based international human rights organization AmnestyInternational, called the multiple executions a "horrifying throwbackto seemingly medieval barbarism."

The grim series was over in just six …