Two men get death penalty for milk scandal

Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China\'s contaminated milk scandal.



The most senior figure to be sentenced was Tian Wenhua, who was chairwoman of the Sanlu Group, the largest producer of baby milk powder.



She was also given a death sentence.



The others are a cattle farmer Zhang Yujun and milk trader Geng Jinping.



They were among several sentences handed down by the court in northern China, where Sanlu is based.



The scandal, in which melamine was added to raw milk to make it appear higher in protein, led to the deaths of six babies and made some 300,000 ill.