Parents, son await execution

Parents, son await execution

SAMPANG, E.Java: The East Java police are preparing a 90-
member firing squad for the execution of two parents and their
son convicted of murdering Lt. Col. Purwanto.

The convicts will be executed now that their plea for clemency
has been rejected by President Soeharto.

The three convicts, Prayit, his wife Sumiarsih and their son
Sugeng, will be taken to different sites and executed by a 30-
member squad, said Maj. Gen. Roesmanhadi, Chief of the East Java
police on Tuesday.

"However there might be changes in the plan. We cannot
determine the time yet...the official announcement will come from
the (East Java) High Prosecutor's Office," he said as quoted by
Antara

The President's clemency rejection was received by the
Surabaya District Court on July 24, and was then passed on to the
Prosecutor's Office.

The convicts were sentenced to death on Feb. 20, 1989, for the
slaying of Lt. Col. Purwanto and four members of his family, to
whom they owed Rp 37 million (US$16,500).

Prayit is reportedly ill at the Kalisosok prison in Surabaya.
Sumiarsih is spending the rest of her days at the Women's Prison
of Lowokwaru, Malang and Sugeng is in the Nusakambangan prison in
Central Java. (anr)