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===Indonesia=== {{Main|Capital punishment in Indonesia}} Execution by firing squad is the capital punishment method used in Indonesia. The following persons were executed (reported by BBC World Service) by firing squad on 29 April 2015 following convictions for drug offences: two Australians, [[Myuran Sukumaran]] and [[Andrew Chan (drug smuggler)|Andrew Chan]], the Ghanaian Martin Anderson, the Indonesian Zainal Abidin bin Mgs Mahmud Badarudin, three Nigerians: Raheem Agbaje Salami, Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise and Okwudili Oyatanze, as well as Brazilian [[Rodrigo Gularte]]. In 2006 [[Fabianus Tibo]], [[Dominggus da Silva]] and [[Marinus Riwu]] were executed. [[Nigeria]]n drug smugglers Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye and Hansen Anthoni Nwaolisa were executed in June 2008 in [[Nusakambangan]] Island.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/06/28/nigerian-drug-smugglers-buried-day-after-execution.html |title=Nigerian drug smugglers buried a day after execution |date=June 28, 2008 |author=Agus Maryono and Suherdjoko |work=The Jakarta Post}}</ref> Five months later three men convicted for the [[2002 Bali bombing]]β[[Amrozi]], [[Imam Samudra]] and [[Ali Ghufron]]βwere executed on the same spot in Nusakambangan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7718246.stm | work=BBC News | title=Bali bomb burials stoke tensions | date=November 9, 2008 | access-date=March 27, 2010}}</ref> In January 2013 56-year-old British woman [[Lindsay Sandiford]] was sentenced to execution by firing squad for importing a large amount of cocaine; she lost her appeal against her sentence in April 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/9861910/British-grandmother-Lindsay-Sandiford-appeals-Indonesia-death-sentence.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/9861910/British-grandmother-Lindsay-Sandiford-appeals-Indonesia-death-sentence.html |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford appeals Indonesia death sentence |newspaper=Telegraph |date=2013-02-11 |access-date=2013-07-25}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Karishma Vaswani |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21137649 |title=BBC News β Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford |publisher=M.bbc.co.uk |date=2013-01-22 |access-date=2013-07-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/british-granny-death-row-smuggling-drugs-prefers-firing-squad-article-1.1316447 |title='At least a bullet is quick': British grandmother on death row in Indonesia for smuggling drugs prefers firing squad |newspaper=NY Daily News |access-date=2013-07-25}}</ref> On 18 January 2015, under the new leadership of [[Joko Widodo]], six people sentenced to death for producing and smuggling drugs into [[Indonesia]] were executed at [[Nusa Kambangan]] Penitentiary shortly after midnight.<ref>{{cite news|agency=AFP |url=https://news.yahoo.com/indonesia-executes-6-drug-convicts-including-5-foreigners-183735193.html |title=Fury as Indonesia executes foreigners by firing squad |date=2015-01-18 |access-date=2015-01-18}}</ref>
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