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AMROZI ET AL WANT TO DIE BY BEING BEHEADED : LAWYER
Serang, Banten, Aug 17 (ANTARA) - Death-row Bali I bombing convicts Amrozi et al are ready to die but want their execution to be carried out by beheading instead of by the bullets of a firing squad, one of their lawyers said.
"This is why, they have filed a suit with the Constitutional Court for a judicial review of the existing law on procedures to implement death sentences," a member of the Muslim Defense Counsels' Team (TPM), Kodrat Feisal, said when contacted by phone from Serang on Saturday.
"They want to be executed by beheading as is done in France," he said.
Since they were sentenced to death, Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas had been insisting that they should be executed according to Islamic shariah which is by beheading, Feisal said.
Execution by a firing squad as stipulated in the existing law in Indonesia could mean torture because when the first salvo aimed at the heart was not effective, the firing squad had to fire a second salvo aimed at the head of the prisoner, he said.
"That would be torture and thus inhuman," he added.
Citing an example, Feisal said, when Muhammad Tubagus Yusuf Mauluna alias Usep (a shaman in Banten who murdered a number of people) was executed not long ago, there was a time lapse of 10 minutes between the moment he was shot and the moment he was pronounced dead.
"This is why, they have filed a suit with the Constitutional Court for a judicial review of the existing law on procedures to implement death sentences," a member of the Muslim Defense Counsels' Team (TPM), Kodrat Feisal, said when contacted by phone from Serang on Saturday.
"They want to be executed by beheading as is done in France," he said.
Since they were sentenced to death, Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas had been insisting that they should be executed according to Islamic shariah which is by beheading, Feisal said.
Execution by a firing squad as stipulated in the existing law in Indonesia could mean torture because when the first salvo aimed at the heart was not effective, the firing squad had to fire a second salvo aimed at the head of the prisoner, he said.
"That would be torture and thus inhuman," he added.
Citing an example, Feisal said, when Muhammad Tubagus Yusuf Mauluna alias Usep (a shaman in Banten who murdered a number of people) was executed not long ago, there was a time lapse of 10 minutes between the moment he was shot and the moment he was pronounced dead.
