Justice: Giving them What they Want?

A young man under the influence of alcohol intent on rape ends up killing his victim instead. His lawyers protest the eye-for-eye spirit of the sentence handed down.

May 8, 2001

More than a thousand people with faces occupied the Purwokerto District Court yard. Apparently they could not contain their anger, although the panel of judges, chaired by Ohan Burhanuddin, had sentenced the defendant Iranto alias Ranto to death, on Monday last week. Yelling and throwing stones, they ran after the police detainees car, with Ranto in it. The police had to fire several warning shots. Only then did the masses disperse. Ranto, 21...

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