CILACAP (INDONESIA) - Indonesia on Friday executed one local and three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad, an official said. "This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking." "The executions were for now conducted on four convicts on death row," he said. He did not say why 10 other drug convicts, who had been expected to face the firing squad, were not executed, although the island where the convicts were being put to death was hit by a major storm as the executions took place. For us, this is really a sad job because it involves people's lives.

Source: Bangkok Post July 28, 2016 19:41 UTC