Indonesia will not meet a request by three Islamic militants sentenced to death over the 2002 Bali bombings to be executed by decapitation rather than firing squad, a police spokesman said today.
Lawyers of Amrozi, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Imam Samudra said last week that if the executions were to proceed, the trio wished to be beheaded.
"We have to follow our law, and our law does not recognise decapitation," national police spokesman Paulus Purwoko told reporters.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad, typically at a secret time and location.
Lawyer Mahendradatta said last Friday that he planned to file a demand to the constitutional court asking that they review the procedure of execution planned to be used for the men, if their sentences were to be carried out.
Mahendradatta said his clients believed execution by gunshot was "torture" and they "asked to be executed the Muslim way, by being beheaded."
The 2002 Bali attacks left 202 people dead, mostly Western holiday-makers and including 88 Australians.
The three bombers were set to be executed on August 22 but their lawyers announced they would file an appeal a day beforehand, effectively delaying their deaths.
None of the convicts have expressed remorse over the attacks on nightspots, which were blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah regional extremist network.
Let each member of their victims' families take a "piece of flesh".
Let the remainder be eaten by pigs.
2001/10/1 Indonesia Tomata 3 0 Terrorists attack a Christian church, killing three women.
2001/10/14 Indonesia Tentena 1 8 Jihad warriors attack passenger bus. They kill a 22-year-old woman and injure eight other people.
2001/10/16 Indonesia Madale 1 1 Muslim mob burns Christian refugee barracks and kill one, seriously injure one other.
2001/10/20 Indonesia Betalemba 2 0 At least two killed in a Muslim attack on Christian village.
2001/10/21 Indonesia Toyado 1 0 Christian is pulled from a car and hacked to death by Jihad warriors.
2001/10/22 Indonesia Toyado 2 0 Two men murdered by Jihad terrorists.
2001/10/3 Indonesia Peleru 10 0 Jihad warriors kill 10 Christian villagers and injure an unknown number.
2001/11/1 Indonesia Palu 4 0 Four Christians murdered by Jihad terrorists at an illegal roadblock.
2001/11/1 Indonesia Tomata 3 12 Jihad warriors attack Christian village and kill three.
2001/11/1 Indonesia Waimulang 5 2 Jihad warriors attack Christian village, killing five and wounding at least two.
2001/11/12 Indonesia Ambon 3 19 Package bomb kills three and injures nineteen.
2001/11/13 Indonesia Ambon 2 5 Muslim attack kills two Christians and injures five more.
2001/12/11 Indonesia Bay of Ambon 7 42 Muslims bomb a boat and then attempt to stab the survivors to death in the water.
2001/12/19 Indonesia Kapaha 9 1 Nine Christians aboard a boat are killed by Jihad attackers.
2001/12/7 Indonesia Ewiri 2 3 Jihadists attack a Christian village, killing two and wounding three.
2002/1/1 Indonesia Palu 1 0 Four bombs exploded at Christian churches and one man died in a hand grenade attack in Jakarta.
2002/10/12 Indonesia Bali 202 300 Series of Al-Qaeda bombs in nightclubs kill more than two--hundred people, injure at least three-hundred more.
2002/12/5 Indonesia Makassar 3 11 Bomb blast rips through a McDonald's restaurant killing three people and injuring several more. Islamic extremists take credit.
2002/4/28 Indonesia Soya 12 6 Muslims attack a Christian village with swords and guns. They are able to kill twelve people and hurt six more.
2002/4/4 Indonesia Ambon 5 57 Passer-by throws bomb in a Christian center and kills five, injures fifty-seven.
2002/5/25 Indonesia Saparua 5 11 A Muslim boat attack kills five Christians and wounds eleven others.
2002/6/5 Indonesia Tentena 4 17 A bomb planted by Muslim radicals explodes on a church bus killing four Christians, including the pastor, and wounding seventeen.
2002/8/11 Indonesia Kayamanya 5 0 A Muslim mob attacks a bus and one other vehicle and kill five Christians.
2002/8/15 Indonesia Manyomba 1 3 Fifty militants attack two Christian villages. They shoot three people and strangle a 3-year-old child to death.
2002/8/31 Indonesia Irian Jaya 3 12 Three teachers, including two Americans, were killed by security forces.
2002/8/7 Indonesia Tentena 1 4 An Italian tourist was killed by Jihad terrorists. Four others were shot.
2002/8/9 Indonesia Malei 2 0 Jihad warriors attack two Christian villages and kill two people.
2002/9/21 Indonesia Kelang 2 2 Two Christians were killed and two wounded by Muslim gunmen.
2002/9/8 Indonesia Galunggung 1 0 A Christian was beaten, then burned to death by a Muslim mob.
2003/10/11 Indonesia Sulawesi 8 24 Muslim gunmen attack Christian villagers, killing eight, injuring dozens more and burning at least one church.
2003/10/27 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 0 Christian farmer killed by Jemmah Islamiah terrorists while working his field.
2003/10/9 Indonesia Poso 2 0 Armed Muslims kill at least two Christian villagers and burn homes.
2003/11/30 Indonesia Poso 2 0 Two Hindu migrants are gunned down as they sat outside their house.
2003/4/27 Indonesia Jakarta 0 11 Bomb set by the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group detonates at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Indonesia's main airport, injuring eleven people.
2003/4/4 Indonesia Wamena 15 0 Indonesian military raids Christian town, burning Bibles and churches, killing two Baptist pastors along with at least thirteen others. Other Christians were tortured.
2003/6/2 Indonesia Kapompa 1 1 Muslim attack on a Christian village leaves one dead and at least one other injured.
2003/7/10 Indonesia Kawua 0 5 A Christian-owned restaurant is bombed. Five people suffer injuries including a child.
2003/7/10 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 0 Muslims attack and shoot a Christian to death as he was working his farm.
2003/8/5 Indonesia Jakarta 14 100 A successful Jemaah Islamiyah suicide attack on a Western hotel in Jakarta kills ten and injures over one hundred people.
2004/1/10 Indonesia Palopo 4 2 Four people are killed, and at least two injured by a bomb blast at a karaoke caf‚. Islamist terrorist attacks killed nearly a dozen Christians there in November.
2004/1/21 Indonesia Maranatha 1 0 The 56-year-old head of a local Christian community is killed by Muslim villagers. (2004)
2004/10/13 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 2 Laskar Jihad gunmen kill a Hindu woman and injure two Christian men by opening fire on their houses.
2004/10/13 Indonesia Jono Oge 2 0 Sword-wielding Muslim mob kills two Christians on a busy street in an Indonesian province. One dies at the scene, another at the hospital.
2004/10/21 Indonesia Poso 1 0 Muslim gunmen kill the security guard at a Catholic church.
2004/11/13 Indonesia Sulawesi 5 4 Muslim terrorists kill five and injure four with a bomb hidden on a public bus. Two of the dead are women.
2004/11/4 Indonesia Poso 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap and decapitate the Christian leader of an Indonesian village.
2004/11/8 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 0 Laskar Jihad terrorists kill the driver of a public minibus.
2004/12/12 Indonesia Sulawesi 0 3 Muslims open fire on churches in Indonesia, injuring three Christians.
2004/3/11 Indonesia Maranatha 1 5 Brutal machete attack on a Christian village leaves a mother of two dead and five others injured.
2004/3/27 Indonesia Poso City 1 0 A 27-year-old Christian is gunned down by Muslim terrorists. (2004)
2004/3/30 Indonesia Tomura 1 1 A Christian pastor is fatally wounded by Muslim gunmen in front of his wife at his church. One other person is also injured in the attack.
2004/4/11 Indonesia Sulawesi 0 7 Islamic gunmen open fire on an Easter church service, wounding seven worshippers.
2004/4/25 Indonesia Ambon 38 24 Islamic radicals go on a rampage against Christians, killing more than thirty (some in sniper attacks) and then setting a UN building on fire.
2004/5/25 Indonesia Ambon 1 13 Bomb blast in the Christian sector of the city kills one and injures thirteen. A second bomb is found near a church and defused.
2004/5/29 Indonesia Palu 1 0 Christian prosecutor, working to keep three Bali bombers in jail is assassinated by Jemaah Islamiah extremists in his car.
2004/5/5 Indonesia Maluku 2 3 Muslim gunmen in a speedboat kill a Christian man and an 11-month-old baby. Three others are also shot, but manage to survive.
2004/7/19 Indonesia Palu 2 3 Islamic gunmen enter a church and kill the female pastor and a 17-year-old girl. Three other teenage worshipers were also shot.
2004/9/9 Indonesia Jakarta 9 173 At least nine are killed when the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group detonates a suicide car bomb outside the Australian embassy in a business district. More than one-hundred and seventy others are treated for injuries.
2005/2/15 Indonesia Ambon 2 2 Muslims shoot two people, including a teenage girl, to death in an attack on a karaoke club.
2005/4/24 Indonesia Sulawesi 6 0 At least six Christian villagers are killed by their Muslim neighbors after refusing to 'return to Islam.'
2005/5/16 Indonesia Maluku 6 0 Five policemen and a civilian are killed by Islamic militants in Indonesia, as they were sleeping. The militants accused them of protecting a Christian village.
2005/5/28 Indonesia Sulawesi 22 60 A priest and an infant are among the nearly two dozen Christians killed when Islamic militants detonate two bombs in the center of a village. At least sixty others are injured.
