Indonesia Delays Death Penalty for Six Inmates
~~By Erwin Cristianson 

June 7, 2013: Indonesia announced on Friday that it would delay carrying out the death penalty for six prisoners.

“We are not committing any executions this month. We decided to push them back to August or September,” Mahfud Mannan, the deputy attorney general for criminal cases, said.

Mahfud declined to reveal the reason for the delay.

The AGO previously announced its plan to execute 10 inmates this year. As of June, Indonesia has put four inmates to death.

In March, Adami Wilson, 48, a drug trafficker from Malawi, was executed by firing squad in Indonesia’s first execution of a convicted felon since 2008.

Adami, 48, was sentenced to death in 2004 for smuggling 1 kilogram of heroin by the Tangerang District Court, according to reports in Majalah Detik. He filed an appeal the same year, but it was declined.

Last month, Indonesia executed three men who were convicted of premeditated murder. Suryadi Swabhuana, Jurit, and Ibrahim were put to death by firing squad in Nusakambangan prison, on an island off the coast of Java.

Amnesty International slammed the latest executions as a “major regressive step.”

Courtesy: Jakarta Globe