Spokesman of the Indonesian Attorney General Tony T Spontana here on Wednesday confirmed that the execution of Mary Jane was delayed.
According to the media reports, the last-minute reprieve came after a woman handed herself into the Philippines police admitting she had tricked Veloso into being an unwitting drug mule, resulting in death penalty.
Of the initial 10 convicts in the execution list, the Indonesian authorities executed eight prisoners - Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan (Australia), Martin Anderson (Ghana), Zainal Abidin (Indonesia), Rodrigo Gularte (Brasil), Raheem Agbajeand, Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, and Okwudili Oyatanze (Nigeria).
Besides Mary Jane, the execution of French citizen Serge Areski Atlaoui was also delayed as he is in the process of a judicial review at the State Administrative Court (PTUN).
In January 2015, the attorney generals office carried out the executions of six death row convicts respectively from Indonesia, Malawi, Nigeria, Vietnam, Brazil, and the Netherlands.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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