Woman To Be Executed By Firing Squad

(Surabaya, Indonesia) For murdering and mutilating three women on separate occasions between August 1993 and September 1995, a woman named Astini, 49, will be executed by firing squad after Ramadan. She will be the ninth Indonesian executed since 1978 (not counting the thousands of communists believed to have been executed without trial). Astini killed the three women because they wouldn't pay their debts.

Earlier this year, Indonesia executed three individuals for drug trafficking, two Thai nationals and an Indian national. Death row currently houses 15 condemned convicts, including the three masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombing.