GOODBYE LETTERS
Sandiford’s case caught tabloid attention back home in Britain, with one newspaper publishing an article written by her in which she detailed her fear of death.
“My execution is imminent, and I know I might die at any time now. I could be taken tomorrow from my cell,” she wrote in British newspaper the Mail on Sunday in 2015.
“I have started to write goodbye letters to members of my family.”
Sandiford, originally from Redcar in northeast England, wrote in the article that she had planned to sing the cheery Perry Como hit Magic Moments when facing the firing squad.
She became friends in prison with Andrew Chan, an Australian killed by firing squad for his role in a plan to smuggle heroin as one of the so-called “Bali Nine” group of smugglers.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has moved in recent months to repatriate several high-profile inmates, all sentenced for drug offences, back to their home countries.
In December, Filipina inmate Mary Jane Veloso tearfully reunited with her family after nearly 15 years on death row.
In February, French national Serge Atlaoui, 61, was returned home after 18 years on death row in Indonesia.
Indonesia last carried out executions in 2016, killing one of its own citizens and three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad.
Indonesia’s immigration and corrections ministry said more than 90 foreigners were on death row, all on drug charges, as of early November.
The Indonesian government recently signalled it could resume executions.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-british-citizens-repatriate-death-row-drug-trafficking-5414631
