JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has executed three people convicted for murder, including a mother and a son, an official said on Saturday, the latest in a string of recent executions in the country.
Jakarta has defended the death penalty as a necessary deterrent. Three militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings are likely to be executed soon after the Supreme Court rejected their final appeal, but no date has been announced.
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