The wave of executions has raised the specter of 1988, when the government executed more than 3,000 political prisoners.
The country's new appetite for executions has raised concerns that convicts like Sandiford, who was found guilty in 2013 for trafficking 4.8kg of cocaine to Bali, are unlikely to have their appeals granted.
According to Le Monde, a newspaper, three suspects, identified thanks to a document left behind in the vehicle they abandoned along with the murdered journalists, are known to French intelligence in the region and had ties to the local branch of al-Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the murder.The executions have raised many questions.
Their planned executions have raised tensions between Australia and Indonesia, at a time when the two countries were just starting to repair ties after a spying incident.
But there were also many who were disgusted, and who protested — and not merely in the Kashmir Valley, Mr. Afzal's birthplace, where a curfew was imposed — because the execution has raised a number of deep concerns.
"On the negative side," Sangiorgio, the Amnesty researcher, told me, "we have recorded shameful resumption of executions in Indonesia, Chad, and Pakistan, where the execution toll has raised to above 300 in approximately 12 months".
A consequence of careful engagement and project execution is the recognition that this work has raised local expectation and interest, with a need to follow up.
That has raised fears that if the execution goes wrong, as it has on numerous occasions in death penalty states within the past year, the prisoner will be unable to express any pain or distress.
Amnesty International has raised concerns about the secrecy of Vietnam's executions and its use of domestically produced chemicals for lethal injection.
And the Supreme Court, headed by a strong-willed judge, has raised difficult questions about the ISI role in numerous human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, and a multimillion-dollar election-rigging campaign that the agency ran in the early 1990s.
It has raised fourfold the subsidy to Matica slovenska, a nationalist cultural outfit that condemns the execution in 1947 of Father Jozef Tiso, the wartime puppet state's priest-president.
