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Bali nine executions: Isolation cells on Indonesias Alcatraz ready by Saturday
Cilacap: The Bali nine duo will be shot simultaneously in a field with eight other drug felons, it has been revealed. And isolation cells will.. As the noose tightens for the 10 facing execution, another of the prisoners on death row is attempting a.
Phallic-looking sculpture at New Zealand transport hub causes a stir
An NZ$200,000 (S$198,700) aluminium mesh artwork suspended over a walkway near a busy transport hub in New Zealands city of Auckland has surprised the public, who have variously called it masculine, phallic, and a penis, the New Zealand Herald .
Second judicial review application denied for Andrew Chan and Myuran.
They have, without any doubt, on the testimony of many people including wardens of the prison, turned a lot of prison life around for the better for many Indonesian prisoners and thats a great thing. Its a great role model theyve replicated in other.
Indonesia says executions wont be delayed despite mercy.
Condemned Bali 9 drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will have a last-ditch appeal against their executions heard on Thursday, Indonesian lawyer says - @australian �� Read more. Indonesian official rejects Bali 9 Australian death row prisoner swap proposal, media reports - @Reuters. End of alert. Read more on straitstimes.com. Indonesian court dismisses Bali Nine pairs appeal challenging presidents clemency decision - @SkyNewsAust.
Death Penalty News: Indonesian court to hear appeal by.
Last week Indonesia rejected [BBC report] a last-ditch prisoner swap offer from Australia aimed at saving the lives of the two men. Indonesia has been under severe international scrutiny due to its frequent use of the death��.
Japan says will not give in to terrorism after ISIS kidnapping
An image grab taken off a video on Jan 20, 2015, reportedly released by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), allegedly shows Japanese hostages Kenji Goto (left) and Haruna Yukawa (right) with a black-clad militant brandishing a knife as he.
Death Penalty News: Florida executes William Van Poyck
The Florida Supreme Court last week rejected Van Poycks latest appeal involving Valdes widow, who says her husband told her he was the shooter.. Here on the row we can discern the approximate time of death when we see the old white Cadillac hearse trundle in through the back sally port gate to pick up the body, the same familiar 1960���s era hearse Ive watched for almost 40 years,.. Indonesia prepares to transfer Philippines drug convict for execution.
Six men in Australia charged in $1.66b drug smuggling case
SYDNEY (AFP) - Six men have been charged over what Australian police said on Saturday was one of the largest drug busts in the countrys history, worth up to A$1.5 billion (S$1.66 billion). Australian Federal Police said the men were charged over their .
Death Penalty News: Indonesian Court Dismisses Bali Nine.
Chan and Sukumarans legal team filed an appeal in the administrative court to challenge President Joko Widodos blanket ban on clemency that affected 64 death row inmates, including the two Bali Nine ringleaders. Their lawyers, led. Source: International Business Times, Feb. 24, 2015. Bali Nine appeal fails. A last-ditch legal effort to save Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan from execution has failed, with a Jakarta court deciding it cant examine the challenge.
20 passengers get off Malindo Air flight in Malaysia after pilots heard.
Apparently, the pilot and the co-pilot were having a serious fight. It was so loud that all the passengers were shocked, said Mr Kee in an interview here on Friday. A foreigner sitting on the front row then stood up and asked for permission to leave.
wanted for mercy: singapore and its mandatory death penalty
The first aspect of the death penalty for drug trafficking in Singapore is that it attracts not just the possibility of a sentence of death, but the mandatory death penalty. Secondly, the. The only exception to this rule was made for convicted Vietnamese-Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van in 2005.. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the High Court in 2009,[21] withdrew his right to appeal, and had a clemency plea to the President rejected. Yongs case��.
Indonesian Muslim clerics angered by Valentines Day condoms
A member of Indonesias conservative Islamic organization Hizbut Tahrir holds a placard during an anti-Valentines Day protest outside a school in Surabaya city, eastern Java island on Feb 13, 2015. Indonesias top Islamic clerical body threatened.
On one Indonesian isle, two Australians are unwelcome
Indonesian authorities have so far failed to clarify which prisoners are on the death list, apart from Chan and Sukumaran and three other convicts being transferred from other prisons in Java and Sumatra. Five death-row drug convicts on Nusakambangan.
Death Penalty News: Texas executes Robert Garza
The high court in a brief ruling rejected Robert Gene Garzas last-ditch appeals Thursday evening while he waited in a cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber... row in Indonesia. Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso Mary Jane Veloso, 30, was caught trafficking drugs when her flight from Malaysia landed in Jogjakarta in April.. Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right) (Reuters) - An Indonesian court hearing the appeals of two Australian death row convict.
Frenchman Serge Atlaoui on Indonesia death row leaves prison for appeal
The families of Brazilian and French drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them on the prison island where they will be put to death by firing squad together with drug convicts from Australia, Ghana, Nigeria and the Philippines.
Death Penalty News: Fresh legal bid underway for Bali Nine.
A NEW effort to halt the momentum behind Indonesias plans to execute Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has begun. INDONESIAN. on death row. But a lawyer for the Bali Nine duo, Ponti Azani, says this blanket treatment of drugs cases is a violation of several regulations, which require the president to consider in detail the conditions of the prisoners seeking clemency.. Indonesia: Executions near as Supreme Court rejects petition. Australians��.
Death Penalty News: Indonesian judge says Bali 9 duo.
The Denpasar District Court is yet to announce if it will accept a last-ditch appeal bid by the 2 Sydney men which was lodged on Friday to be spared from death row. News Corporation understands. Indonesias President has rejected their pleas for clemency, and despite a last ditch legal bid by the pairs lawyers, the Government says the pair have exhausted their appeals and will be among the next round of prisoners to be executed. That means that any day now,��.
Death Penalty News: Mother of Bali Nine ringleader makes.
The Indonesian Supreme Court this month rejected Sukumarans final appeal against his death sentence for his part in the 2005 plot to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia.. Reporter Mark Davis who conducted the interview, which was aired last night, followed Ms Sukumaran as she travelled to Bali to see her son for the first time since his appeal was rejected.. Meet Mylan, the supplier of a death drug, rocuronium bromide, for t.
Death Penalty News: Georgia executes Roy Willard.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - A prisoner who was executed Thursday for killing an elderly Savannah woman more than three decades ago appeared to grimace and jerk as he became the first person put to death in Georgia with a drug that the state had not used before.. The Georgia Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday, rejecting Blankenships last-ditch appeals.. Mary Jane Veloso: How a 30-year-old Filipina ended up on death row in Indonesia.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: Woman whose fiance is on missing plane took later.
Ms Louise Sidharta, whose fiance was on AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ5801 which went missing, speaking to the media on Dec 28, 2014. Ms Sidharta had travelled on a separate flight and was supposed to join her fiance in Singapore. -- ST PHOTO: .
Indonesian president Joko Widodo considering different views on death penalty.
Condemned Bali 9 drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will have a last-ditch appeal against their executions heard on Thursday, Indonesian lawyer says - @australian · Read more on theaustralian.com.au · Alert my friends. 33 WHOA!
Death Penalty News: Indonesian courts reject Bali Nine.
Two Australians convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia have lost their final chance to appeal against their death sentences after an Indonesian district court rejected an application for their cases to be reviewed. Lawyers for Andrew. The review, known as a PK, was a last-ditch effort to save the Bali Nine ringleaders, after President Joko Widodo denied them clemency for their 2005 heroin smuggling attempt. They could be killed. We will find the right time, he said.
Death Penalty News: Indonesia rejects Australia Bali Nine.
Indonesia has rejected a last-ditch offer from Australia of a prisoner swap aimed at saving the lives of two Australian men on death row. Foreign Ministry. Meanwhile Indonesian diplomats told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that a moratorium on the death penalty could be reintroduced - just as the country prepared to execute 10 drug felons including Chan and Sukumaran.. Indonesian court to decide on Bali Nine execution appeal on April 6.
Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: Myanmars Military Still a.
Panel recommends Jokowi ditch police chief nominee; UN criticizes Myanmar monk Wirathus offensive language; Yingluck impeached, faces criminal charges. Read more... Indonesias attorney general on February 2 said that Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the ���Bali Nine��� drug smuggling ring, would be executed after a court rejected their latest appeal.. Myanmar releases prominent Rohingya political prisoner. Authorities on��.
Indonesia court rejects last-ditch appeal by Australian drug convicts on death row
In this file photograph taken on Feb 14, 2006, Australian drug traffickers Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right) look on from a holding cell while awaiting a court trial in Denpasar on Bali island. The duos last-ditch appeal against their.
Bali 9 lawyer says it would be unthinkable if they were taken away for.
Condemned Bali 9 drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will have a last-ditch appeal against their executions heard on Thursday, Indonesian lawyer says - @australian · Read more on theaustralian.com.au · Alert my friends. 33 WHOA!
Bali 9 Sukumaran listed among 20 death row inmates slated.
The decision removes Sukumarans final legal avenue to avoid a death penalty handed down in 2006 over his role in a plot to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia. Jaya Kesuma. Any hopes Sukumaran has of avoiding execution appear to hinge on an argument between the Indonesian constitutional and supreme courts over how many times prisoners can apply for judicial reviews.. Indonesia: Executions near as Supreme Court rejects petition.
Hong Kong cash spill: 3rd person arrested; total sum that fell out of van.
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Death Penalty News: Bali Nine: Indonesian president.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo has defiantly defended his reasons for refusing to let two Australians and other convicted drug smugglers off death row. Andrew. It is a last-ditch effort to get a stay on the executions and force the president to reconsider the cases individually.. Indonesia: Executions near as Supreme Court rejects petition. Public execution in Iran (file photo) At least 7 prisoners were hanged on Thursday in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz.
Fury in Brazil and Netherlands as Indonesia executes foreigners by firing squad
Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira sits in a holding cell on drug charges at Tangerang court, near Jakarta, in this 2004 file photo. Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors in Indonesia after the Southeast Asian nation ignored their.
Death Penalty News: Wife fears execution near for.
His lawyer in Indonesia filed a request last Tuesday for a trial review, a last-ditch attempt to save his clients life. Sabine Atlaoui. Around 12 Indonesians and foreigners are on death row following drug offence convictions in a country with the some of the toughest drug laws in the world. The country. Indonesia: Executions near as Supreme Court rejects petition. Australians. a drug. URGENT APPEAL for Anthony Haynes to be executed in Texas on 18 October.