JAKARTA - Indonesia says it will speed up the execution process of drug traffickers, in a major blow for three Australians on death row for heroin smuggling. As authorities prepared for the executions last night of two Nigerian heroin smugglers, Attorney-General Hendarman Supandji said other drug offenders on death row could expect their cases to be expedited.
The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs group also said executions must take place more quickly to deter traffickers. "To give them a lesson, drug traffickers must be executed immediately," Police chief and National Anti-Narcotic Body chairman General Sutanto said. "With a quick trial and execution process it will give a deterrent effect to the perpetrators, and perpetrators-to-be," he said.
The comments are a blow for the three Australians on death row over the failed Bali nine plot to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin into Australia in 2005. The Nigerians were expected to be the first drug offenders put to death in Indonesia since 2004, and the first since the Bali nine were arrested. "The sentences are a grim reminder of how serious … the issue of the death penalty is," said lawyer Colin MacDonald, who represents Bali nine death-row inmate Scott Rush.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia says it will speed up the execution process of drug traffickers, in a major blow for three Australians on death row for heroin smuggling. As authorities prepared for the executions last night of two Nigerian heroin smugglers, Attorney-General Hendarman Supandji said other drug offenders on death row could expect their cases to be expedited.
