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West Africa Two Nigerians executed in Indonesia for drugs - officials
Jun
26
2008
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 CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two Nigerians convicted for drug smuggling have been executed by firing squad in Indonesia, officials said on Friday.
Samuel Iwachekawu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaoysa were executed before midnight on Thursday on Nusakambangan prison island, which is off the coast of central Java."The executions were conducted at 00:00 last night" the Attorney General's spokesman, Bonaventura Daulat Nainggolan, told Reuters. Indonesia has defended the death penalty as a necessary deterrent in a country with a growing drugs problem. The last foreigners to be executed for drugs offences were two Thai nationals in October 2004. Three Australians convicted for drug trafficking are also on death row in Indonesia until their appeal process is exhausted. They were among nine Australians, known as the Bali Nine, arrested in the resort island of Bali in 2005 with 8.2 kg (18 lb) of heroin. Indonesian prosecutors have said they are also preparing the executions of three Bali bombers for their role in deadly attacks in 2002 that killed 202 people. Dicky Atotoy, head of the Central Java mobile brigade police, said the two Nigerians, who were on death row, had been tied to two wooden poles with their heads covered, and shot by two teams of police snipers. "The doctor declared the two convicts dead at 00.00 following the firing squads' duty to execute them," Atatoy said. It is not clear where the two men will be buried. A Reuters witness said that no coffins had been taken off the island of Nusakambangan after the executions. Set as favorite Bookmark
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