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Issues of the day: Executions near as MA rejects petition
March 27, p1Attorney General M
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Attorney General M. Prasetyo praised the Supreme Court's (MA) decision to reject a second case review petition filed by Philippine national Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, adding that the decision helped clear the way for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to carry out a second batch ofexecutions.
Prasetyo said that the AGO would announce the date of the executions after the Supreme Court issued rulings on two other case-review petitions filed by two other drug convicts: Serge Areski Atlaoui of France
and Martin Anderson, alias Belo, of Ghana.
Atlaoui is currently challenging his death penalty verdict, which stems from a November 2005 arrest when he was found in possession of 138.6 kilograms of methamphetamine, 290 kg of ketamine and 316 drums of drug-making ingredients at a factory in Cikande, Tangerang, Banten. Anderson was sentenced to death after being arrested with 50 grams of heroin in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, in November 2003.
Your comments:
What drug smugglers and dealers do is 'only' to get big cash as quickly as possible and if in the process thousands die from overdoses that is none of their concern. But this time around they've wrongly chosen a country to be their transit country or country of destination.
Ila
There is a rule that you shouldn't believe everything that you read. And I just cannot believe that what I am reading here is true.
Can it really be that Prasetyo has pre-empted what will happen in a court of law? That he is saying that the court's conclusion is a formality and it is just a matter of waiting for their inevitable verdict to set a firm date for execution?
Can I ask Prasetyo to explain how he can be so confident about the outcome of a decision before it is considered by individuals independent of him and his authority? And may I then ask him to articulate how he plans to demonstrate the 'success' of the planned killings, what key statistics he is tracking that will allow him to measure and prove the benefit of slaughtering a mere handful of souls who are of no threat to anyone?
Jaba Bhaile
If you read the information available online about all of those who are on the list to be executed, it is obvious that they are innocent mules and couriers. Most of the cases are extremely sad.
I do not in any way or circumstance support the death penalty, but if you are going to make examples of those smuggling drugs it should be with the people who organize and run the operations.
If Indonesia goes ahead with this, the world will not look at them in the same light for some time. It will be a very backward step.
I am also tired of hearing about the victims who have died because of these people's actions. In most cases, no one died because they were caught carrying the substances, so this isn't an argument for shooting these particular people.
Jeff TDL
Attorney General M. Prasetyo praised the Supreme Court's decision to reject a second case review petition!
I'm sure this guy is celebrating the impending deaths of these people. Maybe, he'll even attend with his mobile phone to record the executions to share with friends and family.
They are a sick bunch of people who have no regard to human life, whether guilty or not, and to actually make statements like this is beyond disgusting.
As the old saying goes, 'What goes around, comes around.'
Willo
Apart from all the other biased comments from this corrupted man, 'Prasetyo added he hoped both appeals would be rejected so the AGO could proceed with the executions.'
This one comment says it all and clearly this man is not fit to be AG of Indonesia: a disgrace to anyone who understands the need for the highest standards possible for the judiciary and law enforcement.
What a disgrace to Indonesia and the judiciary. How would it be possible to have a fair review when biased fools at the top make it clear to any thinking person that the process is corrupt and political from start to finish?
Joko Ono
Prasetyo doesn't care about justice. His goal is obvious: to have them all executed and wash his hands clean, pretending he has respected the legal process. This lack of regard for human life, by someone in such a position of authority, is shameful.
AMM
Drug smugglers deserve the death penalty and no mercy. Did they have mercy on the lives that they destroyed? Did they think of the consequences to the victims when they smuggled those drugs? All they are after is money, and money brings them to where they are now.
Rahim Malek
Approximately 300,000 Indonesians die every year from smoking. The tobacco companies only care about profits and have no concern for the consequences to their victims.
Stu Saville
If the drug smugglers cannot be held accountable for all the drug-related deaths (the reasoning used by President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo), why is it necessary to give the death penalty? After all, there would always be people smuggling and dealing drugs for various 'reasons' because deterrent effects do not exist and cannot be proven.
Who is a human? Playing God, reading minds and judging whether other humans are reformed or not? By doing so, one isn't even worth anything to the devil.
Djay Subianto
