"We will recount drug-related convicts who have been sentenced to death but have yet to be executed," the head of the AGO`s legal information center, Noor Rachmad, said here Tuesday.
Death sentences must be carried out carefully by considering the procedural stages the cases concerned have already been made to pass through "because they concern the lives of human beings," Noor said.
Earlier, the AGO had said, until October 2010, there were 100 convicts on death row. Initially, there were 116 but eventually seven of them had their death sentences commuted, six escaped and thee others died in prison.
Of the 116, 58 were narcotic and psychotropic cases, 55 premeditated murder cases and two terrorism cases.
Among the drug-related cases was that of Meirika Pranola, a woman from Tangerang, Banten, who was caught trying to smuggle in 3.5 kg of heroin.
Meanwhile, Henry Yosodiningrat, chairman of the National Anti-Narcotics Movement (Granat), said according to his data, there were now 11 people on death row for drug-related offenses.
He said he had asked the AGO how many of them had so far made legal efforts to have their death sentence commuted by applying for a review of their sentence by an appellate court,and how many of them had succeeded.
He said he knew of a case in which the convict had requested a sentence review as many as two times which , he said, was something outrageous.
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