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"Brazilian's execution could be postponed

• 6 hours ago March 03, 2015 5:17PM

INDONESIAN Vice-President Jusuf Kalla says the planned execution of a convicted Brazilian drug smuggler could be postponed if he is found to be mentally ill, local media report.
BRAZILIAN national Rodrigo Gularte, 42, is among up to 10 death-row inmates due to be executed this month, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
"If he has a certain illness, he has to be treated first, let alone mental illness," Kalla was quoted as saying by the Media Indonesia daily on Tuesday.

Attorney-General HM Prasetyo said last week that his office was seeking a second opinion on Gularte's condition after a psychiatrist appointed by his lawyers certified him to be schizophrenic.

Prasetyo said Gularte could still be executed under Indonesian law regardless of his present condition on the grounds that he was mentally sound when he was convicted and sentenced to death in 2005 for smuggling cocaine into Indonesia.

President Joko Widodo has rejected clemency requests from at least 16 convicted drug traffickers since he took office in October.

But lawyers for some of the convicts said Joko had failed to examine individual cases and take rehabilitation and good conduct into consideration.

Six of them were executed in January, in a move that drew protests from Brazil and the Netherlands, whose nationals were among those put to death.

Inmates expected to be executed this month include the two Australians, and one each from the Philippines, France, Nigeria, Indonesia and Ghana.

Australia and Brazil have appealed to Joko to show mercy, without success.

Australia says Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, should be spared on the grounds that they have been fully rehabilitated. "