With the first wave of Indonesia’s 2015 executions already behind us, we’re all waiting to see when the next round will be and if the Bali Nine “ringleaders” will be included.
Another well-known inmate that could be next is British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, who says she believes her execution is soon, since she was already asked to sign a legal document that formally confirms her death sentence, reports the Daily Mail.
“If I sign the letter, am I signing my own death warrant? Am I saying, ‘Go ahead and shoot me?’ The letter is in Indonesian so I won’t even know what it says,” Sandiford reportedly said from Kerobokan Prison, where she is being held. An absolute nightmare.
The 58-year-old was convicted of smuggling cocaine back in 2013 and thinks she could face the same firing squad as the Bali Nine’s Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, since her clemency plea already passed five months ago, according to the Daily Mail.
Sandiford does not have any priors, just the one conviction of smuggling GBP1.6 million worth of cocaine from Thailand to Bali in 2012, which resulted in her current death sentence. She claims her son’s lives had been threatened and she was only acting as a mule for a syndicate.
Sandiford was reportedly denied funding for a lawyer from the British government, but she just yesterday asked for a decision reversal for funding so she can lodge another appeal for her sentence.
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