The executions were announced Thursday by Indonesia’s recently appointed Attorney General HM Prasetyo, who said in a statement that preparations for the executions were almost complete.
He said the executions had been scheduled after petitions for clemency to Indonesian President Joko Widodo were rejected late last month. Widodo had told a university audience he planned to reject the appeals for clemency he had received from drug offenders on death row.
The four men and two women to be executed hailed from Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Vietnam and Indonesia, said Prasetyo.
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Indonesia, which has extremely strict drug laws, carries out executions by firing squad.
The country resumed executions in 2013 after a four year break, but no executions were carried out in 2014.
