Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 5:37:16 GMT -5
No beheading for Bali bombers
Indonesia will not meet a request by 3 Islamic militants sentenced to
death over the 2002 Bali bombings to be executed by decapitation rather
than firing squad, a police spokesperson said Tuesday.
Lawyers of Amrozi, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Imam Samudra said last
week that if the executions are to proceed, the trio wish to be beheaded.
"We have to follow our law, and our law does not recognise decapitation,"
national police spokesperson 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 are to be
carried out.
Executed in the Muslim way
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.
The 3 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 Islamiyah
regional extremist network.
(source: News24.com)
Indonesia will not meet a request by 3 Islamic militants sentenced to
death over the 2002 Bali bombings to be executed by decapitation rather
than firing squad, a police spokesperson said Tuesday.
Lawyers of Amrozi, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Imam Samudra said last
week that if the executions are to proceed, the trio wish to be beheaded.
"We have to follow our law, and our law does not recognise decapitation,"
national police spokesperson 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 are to be
carried out.
Executed in the Muslim way
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.
The 3 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 Islamiyah
regional extremist network.
(source: News24.com)