The repatriation comes after Indonesia’s senior law and human rights minister, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, signed a deal with British foreign minister Yvette Cooper last month for the transfer of Sandiford and Shahabadi.
Both prisoners are suffering from severe health problems.
Yusril said last month that Sandiford was “seriously ill”,
Umm:
Two British drug convicts including death row prisoner Lindsay Sandiford
Not executing someone because they’re ill seems, umm, odd. But there’s something at the back of the head telling me that it happens – even to the point of treatment to make the condemned well again so they can be hanged. Not sure where that comes from at all but it is there, rolling around in the wide open spaces of my mind.
So the way to avoid execution is to get yourself diagnosed as terminally ill. Of course we all are aren’t we?. Life is a terminal illness.
Ernest Saunders.
It was not considered sporting to hang someone ill or infirm.
There were Nazi war criminals who were only executed after they had recovered from their injuries.
One of the great complaints about the aftermath of the the Easter Rebellion, was that one of the ringleaders was shot while strapped to a stretcher.
ps Someone on Death Row should bloody well stay there. They’ll only be released by accident over here.
Commies live in the present. They have no mental calendar.
Somebody’s sick? Treat them.
“But we are hanging them next week!”
“They are sick today.”
An NHS waiting list is just a different kind of death row.
And that’s assuming you stay on it. I’ve been kicked off at least three lists. Had to argue to get back on them again.