FEATURED POST

Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

Published
Image
Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

Lindsay Sandiford Case Not Discussed With UK Ambassador: Indonesian Minister Retno

Published
Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cell
Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cell
Jakarta. A recent meeting between the UK ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian government did not touch on the fate of a British grandmother who is on death row in the country for smuggling drugs, the minister of foreign affairs said on Friday.

“We discussed the British prime minister’s plan to visit Indonesia. The focuses were in economy, trade, investment and others,” Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi told reporters at the State Palace in Jakarta.

“Nothing [about Lindsay Sandiford],” she added.

Sandiford was sentenced to death in 2013 and sent to the same jail as Australian drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran — who both were executed by firing squad in April this year, along with five other foreigners and one Indonesian.

Sandiford was caught trying to smuggle 3.8 kilograms of cocaine when she arrived in Bali from Bangkok in 2012.

Indonesia has received strong criticism from around the globe over the executions.

Source: The Jakarta Globe, June 19, 2015


Jokowi's "Deterrence Effect": Jakarta Police Seize 16 Kilos of Meth Smuggled From China

Police in North Jakarta have foiled an attempt to smuggle 16 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into the country from China
Police in North Jakarta have foiled an attempt to smuggle 16 kg
of crystal methamphetamine into the country from China.
Jakarta. Police in North Jakarta have foiled an attempt to smuggle 16 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, arresting an Indonesian woman in the process.

Sr. Comr. Susetio Cahyadi, the North Jakarta Police chief, said on Friday that the drugs were packaged in boxes marked as massage equipment and sent by ship from Guangzhou.

After somehow clearing customs at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port, the drugs were sent to a warehouse in nearby Penjaringan subdistrict, where police seized them along with a woman, identified as Widya, who showed up to pick them up.

“Widya is an accomplice for three Nigerian drug traffickers who are currently still at large,” Susetio said.

He said the drugs had an estimated street value of Rp 24 billion ($1.8 million).

Widya faces drug trafficking charges that carry a maximum sentence of death.

Source: The Jakarta Globe, June 19, 2015

Report an error, an omission: deathpenaltynews@gmail.com
Location: Indonesia
Related content:

Most Viewed (Last 7 Days)

Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

Published
Image
Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.
Read more

Could Moscow attack suspects face execution in Belarus?

Published
Image
After the deadly terrorist attack at Moscow's Crocus City Hall, some Russian politicians are debating trying the suspects to Belarus, which still has death penalty. But it's not that simple. The terror attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall has ignited debate about the reintroduction of the death sentence in Russia. Given that 140 people died and more than 500 were wounded at the concert hall on March 22, 2024, emotions are running high.
Read more

Bill Moves Forward to Prevent Use of Nitrogen Gas Asphyxiation in Louisiana Executions

Published
Image
There’s an effort underway, in the current legislative session in Baton Rouge, to reverse course on the controversial execution method with Senate Bill 430. When Louisiana legislators approved the use of nitrogen gas asphyxiation as an execution method during a second special legislative session in February, the move attracted national attention; not the least because it has only been used in the U.S. once. That’s when Alabama executed convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith on January 25th of this year. Now there’s an effort underway, in the current legislative session in Baton Rouge, to reverse course on the controversial execution method with Senate Bill 430.
Read more

Iran | 9 prisoners executed in a single day

Published
Image
9 prisoners of drug charges executed in the central prisons of Kerman, Chabahar and GhezelHesar According to the Iranian Human Rights Society website, on Sunday, April 21st, 2024, 9 prisoners including, Baloch and Kurdish drug suspects were executed in the central prisons of Kerman, Chah bahar, and GhezelHesar.  
Read more

Iran | Probable Child Offender and Child Bride, Husband Executed for Drug Charges

Published
Image
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); April 15 2024: Marjan Hajizadeh and Esmail Hassaniani, a couple sentenced to death for drug-related charges in a joint case, were executed in Zanjan Central Prison.  Marjan is reported to have been 16 at the time of arrest, which IHRNGO is working to confirm. If verified, she will be the first child offender executed for drug charges since 2014. She was also a child bride forced into marriage.
Read more

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Arizona death penalty case that could redefine historic precedent

Published
Image
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments centering on an Arizona death row prisoner that could set new precedent to determining ineffective assistance of counsel.  A Mohave County Superior Court jury convicted Danny Lee Jones for the 1992 murders of Robert Weaver and his daughter Tisha, as well as the attempted murder of Weaver’s grandmother. A judge sentenced Jones to death for the two murders.
Read more