Filipino woman on Indonesia death row recalls a stunning last minute reprieve and 'miracle' transfer

Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just feet from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting

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