Graphic bid to stop Bali executions
Mark Forbes; 19/9/08
The fate facing condemned Australian drug smugglers and the three Bali bombers was played out in grisly detail as the bombers’ death penalty challenge heard a first-hand account of firing squads yesterday. Catholic priest Charlie Burrows softly echoed the moans made by two Nigerian drug traffickers as their life blood ebbed away close to midnight on June 26. “They were moaning again and again for seven minutes,” he told Indonesia’s Constitutional Court. “I think it is cruel, the torture.” Desperate to provide some sort of consolation, Father Burrows sang Amazing Grace as the pair slowly died. They were pronounced dead 10 minutes after they were shot.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/national/graphic-bid-to-stop-bali-executions-20080918-4jeo.html
Tags: Capital Punishment, Indonesia