Posted on 08/06/2008 2:30:29 PM PDT by PROCON
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings lodged a legal challenge on Wednesday over Indonesia's method of executing convicts by firing squad, calling it inhumane.
The three men -- Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron -- face a firing squad for their roles in the nightclub bombings on the island of Bali that killed 202 people.
"We believe that execution by way of a gunfire is inhumane. It is for these reasons that the defense attorneys are applying to challenge the legislation," said lawyer Wirawan Adnan, adding that a judicial review had been lodged at the Constitutional Court.
A Bali court initially sentenced the three men to death in 2003, but their lawyers have used a number of legal avenues that have delayed the executions.
"It's not a matter for us whether or not Amrozi is to be executed. Gunfire is one way, another way of doing it is by lethal injection," Adnan said, adding that it could take more than a minute for a convict to bleed to death after being shot.
The three men would prefer an Islamic method of execution by beheading, Adnan added.
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And blowing people to bits isn’t inhumane?
I wonder how many of the victims had their heads torn off in the explosion
**How about an FR lottery to see who gets to swing the ax?!**
OK, Sure .. whatever you want guys ...
Lottery ALSO for who gets to DULL the Blade?
What was humane about the bombings? The axman should start chopping off a few limbs, and eventually work his way to their heads.
My preferred method for them involves sow pheromones and very horny boars.
Sign me up if I can use my machete.
I see no reason to give them a thing.
I still believe we should part them out, take what will save a life and discard the rest to a pig farm.
Yo, Imam, soon you will be UNDEAD, no paradise, no virgins,
NO ALLAH.
Oh, and once we have your heart out, we are going to wake you up and show it to you, we can DO THAT!
I suggest stoning them to death or crushing them under a wall of masonry. Those methods are approved by the Koran.
I’d put them in a twenty foot deep, open topped, steel tank with latrine seats over the top and invite the families of the victims to defecate and urinate on them until they eventually drown in the sewage. Might take a few days, but it would give everyone who wanted to an opportunity to participate without individually feeling any guilt.
Well. This is ironic.
Hang them from a lamp post and leave their bodies to rot away as warning to fellow jihadist scum
We believe that execution by way of a gunfire is inhumane.
well, you can’t get everything you want.
Spoiled brats.
Sounds like a plan....
I’ll make them a nice bacon cheeseburger for their last meal.
Oh yeah???,
Reichsmarschall Göring wanted to be executed by a firing a squad. He thought it was how a military officer should be put to death, and that hanging was for common criminals, so he committedd suicide by cyanide minutes before he was to be hanged.
Just goes to show that you can't make everybody happy.
Use a dull butter knife or a spoon to whack their heads off.
Convicted in 2003 after only one year after doing their dirty deed.
It is now 2008, five years later after legal stonewalling.
Shoot the damn lawyers too!!!!
“Use a dull butter knife or a spoon to whack their heads off.”
How about a hammer and a spork instead?
Blowing up *innocent* people, even.
Who cares what they think.
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