Police in South Sumatra province have formed a 14-member firing squad to execute convicted murderer Jurit bin Abdullah, but the date of his execution remains a secret. Jurit (38) was in 1997 sentenced to death by Sekayu District Court for two murders. His first clemency appeal was rejected in February 2003. The Supreme Court recently rejected his final plea for a judicial review. "We have received word from the National Police chief to carry out the execution, but we don't yet know the date or location," chief of the South Sumatra Mobile Brigade (Brimob) Police, Sukamso, was quoted as saying Saturday by detikcom online news portal.
Under Indonesian law, police conduct executions in secret in isolated locations. Several of the weapons used contain blanks so the officers will not know who fired the fatal shots. Sukamso said a team of 14 Brimob officers has been training over the past month for the execution of Jurit. Authorities earlier this year executed three foreigners for smuggling 12.29 kilograms of heroin into the country. Indian national citizen Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey was executed at a golf course on the outskirts of Medan, North Sumatra, on August 5. His two accomplices, Thai citizens Saelow Praseart and Namsong Sirilak, were executed on October 1.
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