AGO FORMULATING DEADLINE FOR DEATH-ROW CONVICTS' JUDICIAL REVIEW REQUESTS

Jakarta, March 20 (ANTARA) - The Attorney General's Office will formulate the deadline for the submission of judicial review requests by death-row convicts to follow up the issuance of a Supreme Court (MA) edict recognizing the office's right to do so.
"So, we will formulate it (after the issuance of the MA edict)," Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said here on Friday.
Supandji said that the MA's legal advice with regard to a death sentence mentioned that the deadline for the submission of legal avenue by a death-row convict should be made with a certain appropriate period.
He said that his office would see and discuss how far is the formulation of the word 'appropriate.'
"By definition, the word 'appropriate' could have many interpretations," he said.
Head of the Legal Affairs Information Center of the AGO, Jasman Pandjaitan said MA had issued a legal opinion based on a decree it issued on March 17, 2009.
"The essence of the decree based on article 270 of the Criminal Codes, is that each of the court decisions which have become legally binding will be carried out by the prosecutors," he said.
The edict, he said, also mentioned that in each court's decision which had become legally binding, except when the defendant was acquitted from all charges, the convict or a member of his/her family is given the right to file a judicial review with the MA.
"But so far the law does not provide a deadline for the submission of a legal avenue or judicial review so that it creates uncertainties for a death-row convict over when he or she should be executed," he said.
He said that the Supreme Court's legal advice mentioned the implementation of the death sentence should be carried out within a proper period of time.***4***