Attorney General Burhanuddin Problems When Executing The Death Penalty

Attorney General's Hearing Meeting with Commission III DPR (Mery / era.id)

JAKARTA - Attorney General ST Burhanuddin explained his plan to handle the execution of the death penalty which is still a problem. One of them is related to regulatory changes in filing PK (Reconsideration) and different clemency in the Constitutional Court (MK) and the Supreme Court (MA).

This was explained by Burhanuddin in the Hearing Meeting (RDP) with Commission III of the DPR. He said, in MA circular letter number 7 which states that PK is only allowed once, in contrast to the Constitutional Court's decision, PK can be more than once with the consideration that it is a human right.

"It will be a bit of a problem for us to carry out executions. For what reason, death row inmates who have PK once again have to be considered again if they want to PK."

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin

According to him, if you do not reject the PK, then there must be things that later if a decision is different from the first one, there will definitely be other problems. "Thus these provisions are useless," he added.

In fact, referring to Article 2 paragraph (2) of Law number 2 of 1964 on the procedure for the execution of the death penalty imposed by courts in the general and military courts. Therefore, the execution of the death penalty cannot be carried out before the perpetrator has been sentenced to court.

In addition, the execution of the death penalty must consider the mental conditions of the death row inmates. He said the AGO is of the opinion that a death row convict who is mentally ill cannot be executed.

"To prevent the execution of a death row inmate deliberately because the convict is mentally ill, the mental illness suffered by the death convict can be postponed. Must be supported by medical information that shows that the death row inmate is mentally ill," he explained.

Until now, as many as 274 death row inmates are still awaiting execution in the correctional institutions (LP). They were sentenced to death for various cases, namely 68 murders, 90 narcotics, eight robberies, one terrorism, one theft, one morality, and 105 other crimes.

Of the 274 people, 26 inhabit the prison in Jakarta. 24 of them were convicts of narcotics crimes, while the other two were convicted in murder cases.