This photo illustration shows a vendor holding a newspaper that ran an article saying Filipina drug convict Mary Jane Veloso had been executed alongside seven foreign drug convicts in Indonesia, at a news stand in Manila on April 29, 2015. -AFP
MANILA: Several Philippine newspapers were caught out Wednesday by a last-minute reprieve for a young woman facing execution in Indonesia, running front-page headlines bidding her farewell and accusing the government of failing to save her.
“Death came before dawn,” read the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s dramatic headline, above a large photograph of condemned Filipina maid Mary Jane Veloso, 30, whose plight has captivated the nation.
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