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3 Nigerian drug offenders executed in Indonesia

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8 years ago

July 29, 2016

Three Nigerians and an Indonesian national faced capital punishment Friday after they were all executed by firing squad for drug offences.

Noor Rachmad, deputy attorney general for crimes, told reporters that the convicts were put to death shortly after midnight but did no give information as to why 10 other convicts who were expected to face the firing squad were not executed.

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“The executions were for now conducted on four convicts on death row,” he said.

“This is not a fun job. For us, this is really a sad job because it involves people’s lives.

“This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking.”

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