One more joins Tangerang death row for drugs<\/p>\n
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang<\/p>\n
The Tangerang District Court sent another drug dealer to death
\nrow on Monday, putting at 26 number of those now awaiting
\nexecution since January 2000 in the municipality.<\/p>\n
None have been executed, pending appeals and other legal
\nmoves.<\/p>\n
The court found Adam Wilson, 31, a citizen apparently of both
\nBenin and Malawi, guilty of having a role in smuggling one
\nkilogram of heroin from Thailand into the country via his
\nIndonesian girlfriend in early 2002.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge Maha Nikmah also ordered Wilson to pay a Rp
\n150 million (US$16,667) fine.<\/p>\n
The verdict was equal to the demand sought by prosecutor
\nHutagaol.<\/p>\n
Wilson's lawyer Dedi Waluyo said they would appeal.<\/p>\n
\"The defendant has been proven guilty of all charges and there
\nare no mitigating factors that can reduce the sentence,\" Maha
\nNikmah announced in court.<\/p>\n
The judge explained that the defendant had ignored the
\nIndonesian government's antidrug campaign, endangered the
\ncountry's young generation, given false testimony and showed no
\nremorse during the trial.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor charged the defendant with violating Law No.
\n22\/1997 on Drugs, Article 55 of the Criminal Code on persuading
\nothers to commit crimes and Law No. 9\/1992 on Immigration.<\/p>\n
Hutagaol said the defendant illegally entered the country in
\n1999 via Entekong, an immigration post in West Kalimantan where
\nit borders eastern Malaysia, without valid travel documents.<\/p>\n
Two years later, he built a relationship with Edith Yunita
\nSianturi. In February 2002, Wilson asked Sianturi to go to
\nThailand and take along with her US$4,500 in cash to be submitted
\nto a man called Brother in Bangkok.<\/p>\n
She first refused but then agreed after Wilson threatened to
\nbreak up with. Sianturi managed to do what she had been asked but
\nwhen she was about to fly back home a week later, Brother asked
\nher to also take a leather bag to be given to Wilson.<\/p>\n
Upon her arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the
\ncustoms and excise officers found that the bag was full of
\nheroine.<\/p>\n
Sianturi was sentenced to death in 2002, but the police
\nsuspected that she had not acted alone and eventually arrested
\nWilson as her cohort.<\/p>\n
The police continued to track down the defendant and arrested
\nhim after they staged a drug transaction trap in a house in
\nBekasi last year.<\/p>\n
\"How can the court sentence me to death? There is no evidence
\non me. It's not fair. There's no justice,\" Wilson said after the
\nverdict was read.<\/p>",
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