MANILA: The last-minute reprieve for a Filipina drug convict facing execution in Indonesia has sparked an outpouring of euphoria and disbelief, with crowds weeping with joy and her children crying “Mama will live!”
Mary Jane Veloso’s family said their prayers had been answered after it emerged the single mother, 30, was not among a group of foreign drug convicts who faced the firing squad shortly after midnight yesterday.
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