Medan, Indonesia – When Indonesia recently unveiled the latest plans to overhaul its ageing Criminal Code, one of the articles that caught everyone’s eye was the one about the death penalty.

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on Feb. 1 after customs officers halted them at the X-ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage ...

Indonesia executed four convicted drug offenders by firing squad early Friday, the country’s deputy attorney general said. Noor Rachmad told reporters outside the Nusakambangan prison in central ...

As far back as 1764, the Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria wrote in his famed essay, “Of Crimes and Punishments,” that the death penalty is a “war of the whole nation against a citizen ...

3 British nationals face the death penalty in Indonesia over drug smuggling charges The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit in the Doha international airport in Qatar ...

A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade. She was arrested in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms (8.4 pounds) of cocaine was discovered stuffed ...

Indonesia is imposing the death penalty for drug-trafficking offences. Even if we accept that states are permitted to use the death penalty, there is an unequivocal ban on the death penalty for ...

Indonesia executed four convicted drug offenders by firing squad early Friday, the country’s deputy attorney general said.