Indonesia set to execute mother-son murderers: official

by uusjio | July 17, 2008 at 12:41 am | 209 views | add comment

The law must continue to be upheld!

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Sumiarsih and Sugeng were sentenced by the death sentence because of being proven killed Lt col in March Purwanto and his family's four members in Surabaya on August 23 1988.

The murder that was planned by Sumiarsih involved his son-in-law, the Sergeant Second Class Pol Adi Saputro, that already before dieksekusi, also Djais Adi Prayitno, his husband, died in 2001 because of being sick. Adi Saputra was the husband from Wati, the Sumiarsih uterus child.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An Indonesian woman and her son are set to be executed in Indonesia for the murder of five members of a family in a revenge attack 20 years ago, an official said Wednesday.

Attorney General's Office spokesman Bonaventura Nainggolan confirmed the execution plan but refused to give details.

"We have arrived at the final preparations," he told AFP, adding that the pair had made a last request to see loved ones before they died.

Sumiarsih and her son, Sugeng, were found guilty in 1989 of the premeditated murder of five members of a single family in Surabaya, East Java province, the previous year.

The murders were an act of revenge over a business dispute.

Nainggolan said they had exhausted all avenues of appeal and their request for clemency had been rejected by the president in June.

Executions in Indonesia are by firing squad, usually carried out at night in isolated and undisclosed locations. The prisoner is notified at least 72 hours in advance. end (*)