60 more drug convicts to face firing squad in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia – The National Narcotics Agency has revealed that 60 more death row convicts were waiting their turn for execution.

“Around 60 people sentenced to death for drug trafficking are waiting their turn to be executed,” kompas.com quoted agency head Anang Iskandar as saying at a press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Eight death row inmates, mostly foreigners, were put to death by a firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, off Cilacap, Central Java, on Wednesday, while two more — Frenchman Serge Atlaoui and Filipina Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso — were reprieved.

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Anang, accompanied by Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara, said the government should remain consistent in enforcing the death penalty to send a good message to others as well as to reduce to a minimum the rampant trafficking of drugs within and into the country.

The death sentence imposed on drug dealers and traffickers is regulated in Law No. 35/2009 on narcotics.

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