Two women shot dead by firing squads in Indonesia this weekend. They were among six drug smugglers executed after the president brushed aside last-minute diplomatic efforts to secure them clemency.
Tran Bich Hanh, 37, of Vietnam, and 26-year-old Indonesian Rani Andriani were both shot to death shortly after midnight on Saturday after exhausting all their possibilities for appeal and clemency.
The final wish of Tran, who had begged to be allowed to be executed in her home country, was to face the firing squad uncuffed. It was granted.
Four men from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands and Nigeria, were also shot dead in pairs at the same time on Saturday on the Nusakambangan island penal colony.
Andriani was also executed there, but Tran was executed in Boyolali, according to Attorney General Office's spokesman Tony Spontana.
Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 250million people, has extremely strict drug laws and often executes smugglers. More than 138 people are on death row, mostly for drug crimes. About a third of them are foreigners.
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