Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia...

Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia sentenced Nigerian Stephen Rasyaad Akinyemi, 35, to death by firing squad for drug smuggling.
He was the 24th person the court had handed down a death sentence to for drug smuggling since the passing of the narcotics and psychotropic substance laws in 1998.
Akinyemi had been found guilty of possessing 400 grams of heroin for supply found with him at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, in June 2003.
"The death penalty is the most suitable punishment for the crime," Suprapto told the closing hearing.
By bringing heroin the defendant had ignored the Indonesian government's antidrug campaign. His actions would only exacerbate the nation's drug problem among youth, he said.
"The crime was committed in a syndicate, therefore, the maximum penalty is given to deter others." Akinyemi, who is married to an Indonesian, had pleaded for the judges' mercy.
"Pak Prapto, I realize that I was wrong. I have a wife and we have two children. I beg you not to impose the maximum sentence against me," he read in his plea early in the session.
The sentence was harsher than the life sentence and Rp 250 million (US$29,411) fine proposed by the team of prosecutors.