Posted on 08/11/2005 3:43:54 AM PDT by naturalman1975
Executions for the three Bali bombers could be imminent with their lawyers and justice officials expecting to receive letters from the Indonesian government authorising the carrying out of their death sentences.
Adnan Wirawan, the lawyer for the so-called smiling assassin Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, as well as bombing mastermind Imam Samudra and financier Mukhlas, said he has heard that a letter has been sent to authorities in Bali, clearing the way for police to organise firing squads.
"I have not yet seen it from the attorney-general, it's not here yet," he said.
"But if it's really been issued, we will fight it."
The head of the justice ministry's prisons division in Bali, Mayun Mataram, also said an execution letter had been issued by justice officials in Jakarta.
"But officially the letter hasn't been received," he said.
When received, the letter could mean the death sentences are carried out within the next few months.
A spokesman for the attorney-general's office was unavailable.
The three bombers have all had their appeals rejected.
Their last hope of avoiding death rests with a clemency request to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Adnan said the clemency requests had been sent automatically by the Denpasar District Court, although the three themselves had not asked for mercy from their death-row cells at Denpasar's Kerobokan Prison.
"They never wanted clemency," he said. "They don't want mercy."
The court's chief registrar I Nengah Sarwa said the clemency letters had been sent to the Supreme Court in Jakarta and then to the president as part of general sentence remission requests made to coincide with Indonesia's independence day on August 17.
"If the convicted, their family or lawyers don't submit for clemency, the head of the district court may submit it on their behalf," he said.
Mayun said 19 convicted Bali bombers would receive automatic sentence remissions next week of between one and six months.
Thousands of other inmates are expected to get similar remissions.
Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas were not on the list.
Mukhlas punched the air in delight when he was sentenced to death in October 2003, mimicking his younger brother Amrozi.
A defiant Amrozi, sentenced in August 2003, took off his Islamic skull cap, raised his arms and gave his lawyers the thumbs-up as survivors of the bombing at the Sari Club and Paddy's Irish Pub in Kuta cheered.
Imam Samudra, a computer expert and the only one of the suspected bombers to have a university degree, was convicted in September 2003 and shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great") as the verdict was read out.
He said he was happy about the number of foreigners, including 88 Australians, who died in the Bali attack, but regretted the 38 Indonesian victims among the 202 people killed.
Death sentences in Indonesia are carried out by a police firing squad made up of elite paramilitary officers from the Mobile Brigade, or Brimob.
The condemned are usually shot in a remote forest or beach.
Indonesian authorities are currently considering a more humane alternative method after reports many of the condemned do not die immediately.
I wonder what New Zealand bleeding hearts think about the imminent executions. Well, they probably blame Bush for the Bali bombings, so they're likely to find mple reason to excuse these fiends. (My eldest son, a Cambridge-brainwashed Liberal, resides in NZ and is in hog heaven.)
Hmm, that's 'ample reason'.
Strap a block of C4 to each one and use a remote detonator.
Oh yes. Don't forget to wrap each of them in a pigskin first.
On the beach? Drown them.
Never widely reported was that several hundred Indonesians were injured in the bombing. More than 500 IIRC.
"They don't want mercy."
Good. Don't give 'em any.
Generally speaking, I am not in favor of the death penalty. But I don't think I'm going to lose any sleep over these guys.
Good on these folks for pulling the trigger, rope, whatever. We should ALL take a page from their book.
Tie them to the front of a car and see how fast they can run?
I shudder to think that Islamo-terrorists are plotting to attack schools and hospitals in this country and have little fear of swift punishment.
Leni
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