Astini Sumiasih

Astini Sumiasih (22 September 1955 – 20 March 2005), better known by her pseudonym Mrs. Astini, was an Indonesian serial killer who killed three neighbors from whom she had borrowed money between 1992 and 1996, dismembering their bodies afterwards. For her crimes, she was sentenced to death and subsequently executed by firing squad in 2005.

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Murders Born in Jombang on 22 September 1955, Sumiarsih was a mother of three living in Malang together with her husband and three children. She was generally known as a friendly, yet temperamental woman who frequently borrowed large amounts of money from her neighbors, which she was often unable to pay back.

Execution After her last petition for clemency was denied in 2004, Sumiasih was remanded for a five-day isolation period to the Medaeng Detention Center in March 2005, where she was visited by her husband and children.

On 20 March 2005, accompanied by her lawyer and the prosecutorial team, Sumiasih was escorted to an undisclosed location near Surabaya, where she was subsequently executed by the East Java Regional Police Mobile Brigade. She was shot six times directly into the heart, dying on the spot.

Aftermath Following her execution, a debate over the cruelty of the death penalty was enacted in the country and whether Sumiasih's sentence should've been reduced. Her house was rented out to several families, who supposedly reported that it smelled of blood.