Indonesia Executes 8 Prisoners Including 4 Nigerians, Spares Filipino Woman

Indonesia has executed 8 of the 9 people convicted for drug offenses. The men all pictured above were taken to a jungle clearing on the island Nusakambangan according to local media reports and were executed at midnight Indonesia time by 12 police privates (about 6pm Nigerian time). The only woman among’st them, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, was spared last minute after new information emerged about her case. A woman who reportedly tricked her into carrying drugs turned herself in earlier yesterday. The bodies of the men will be taken by road to Jakarta.