”We defend the nation,” Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said, answering to the international claims for clemency. Even The United Nations has argued that the inmates’ crimes are not egregious enough to warrant the ultimate punishment. The head of Europe’s human rights watchdog on Tuesday urged Indonesia not to carry out the executions. “The death penalty is a terrible injustice which can never be put right,” Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said in a statement. As some commentators appreciated, the inmates will be shot shortly after midnight. in the early Wednesday.
