The families of foreign prisoners on death row for
drug offences in Indonesia have appealed to the
Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to show mercy,
days before their relatives are due to face a firing
squad. On Saturday, Indonesia gave 72 hours’ notice
to four Nigerians, two Australians, a Brazilian, a
Ghanaian, a Filipino and an Indonesian national on
death row that they are to be executed, possibly as
soon as Tuesday. The attorney general’s office said
notices that they would face a firing squad were
delivered to the 10 inmates on the prison island of
Nusakambangan, despite last-minute appeals for
clemency from the governments of several of the
prisoners’ countries. A temporary reprieve had been
granted to the French citizen, Serge Atlaoui, a French
embassy official said on Saturday. Atlaoui’s execution
was delayed over an outstanding legal complaint
over the procedure followed in his request for
clemency. However, the Indonesian attorney general,
Tony Spontana, said the Supreme Court was
expected to rule on the matter on Monday. Mental
illness The Brazilian family of Rodrigo Gularte
pleaded for the cancellation of his execution on
Sunday, saying he has been diagnosed with a mental
illness by a local hospital. Gularte was sentenced to
death in 2005 after being arrested for attempting to
smuggle 6kg of cocaine into Indonesia. “On behalf of
the family, we are asking Indonesian President
Jokowi to see truly and wisely the facts and beg the
president to cancel the executions,” said the family’s
Indonesian lawyer, Ricky Gunawan, accompanied by
Gularte’s cousin Angelita Muxfeldt. “We know the
president has the right to cancel executions. We hope that Rodrigo will be treated at a mental hospital, just as the local hospital in Cilacap has recommended." www.punchng.com/news/families-ask-indonesia-for-clemency-for-drug-prisoners/

I feel for those involved however, the probability of Indonesia bending their rules for these guys is very low.