Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly after midnight on Wednesday, media said, but a Filipino woman who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute.
There was no immediate official confirmation that the eight men had been executed.
Earlier, Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency to be granted the drug traffickers from Nigeria, Australia, Brazil and Indonesia, ordering their mass execution to proceed within hours.
Andrew Chan (center) and Myuran Sukumaran (left) stand in a holding cell in the Denpasar court in Bali on Oct. 8, 2010.
A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two from the Philippines who was arrested in 2010 after she arrived in Indonesia with 2.6 kg of heroin hidden in her suitcase, had been delayed.
Myuran Sukumaran
A convoy of ambulances arrives at Wijayapura ferry port to cross to the prison island of Nusakambangan, in Cilacap on April 28.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
Myuran Sukumaran
A convoy of ambulances arrives at Wijayapura ferry port to cross to the prison island of Nusakambangan, in Cilacap on April 28.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
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