Waiting for the End

February 18, 2003

THE presidential pardon is not always the final avenue of recourse for death row inmates. In June 2001, President Megawati Sukarnoputri rejected a request for pardon from Ibrahim bin Ujang, who has spent the past five years on death row at the Pakjo penitentiary in Palembang. Yet, the public prosecutor's office has postponed Ibrahim's execution. After receiving notice that his request for pardon had been rejected, Ibrahim filed a request for c

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