2 Nigerian drug traffickers are to be executed on Sunday, 18 January 2015.
Unless there is a miracle or a last minute reprieve, 2 Nigerian drug traffickers would be put to death on Sunday, 18 January, 2015, would be put to death after their sentence was confirmed by the Attorney General of Indonesia.
According
to Amnesty International, the Nigerians, 38-year-old Daniel Enemuo,
alias Diarrssouba, and Namaona Denis, were convicted of the crimes in
2004 and 2001 respectively, and they are among 5 other condemned
convicts who would be executed on the same day.
Enemuo
was sentenced to death by the Tangerang District Court in September,
2004, for attempting to smuggle 1.150 grams of heroin into the country
from Pakistan in January 2004, while the 49-years-old Denis, who was
reportedly born in Nigeria but travelled to Indonesia with a Malawian
passport, was sentenced by the Bandung High court in 2001 after being
convicted of smuggling 940 grams of heroin at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta.
According to his lawyers, Denis did not understand his trial proceedings as he was not provided with adequate interpretation.
Amnesty
International reported that the 5 convicts are reportedly going to be
executed on Nusakambangan Island while 1 of them is to be executed in
Boloyali district, both in Central Java.
"Death
sentences in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad. The prisoner
has the choice of standing or sitting and whether to have their eyes
covered, by a blindfold or hood.
Firing
squads are made up of 12 people, three of whose rifles are loaded with
live ammunition, while the other nine are loaded with blanks."
This
will be the first execution under new, President Joko Widodo, who had
pledged during his election campaign that there would be no clemency for
drug offenders, despite pleas from the Europ
