April 29, 11:27 AM — ‘They were praising their God’
Reports have emerged some of the condemned prisoners sung for one another before their executions.
“They were praising their God,” Pastor Karina de Vega said.
“It was breathtaking. This was the first time I witnessed someone so excited to meet their God.”
One sung "Amazing Grace" in an experience, Pastor Vega described as the most beautiful moment she ever experienced.
...2.09pm — ‘The Australians had the loudest voices’
Father Charlie Burrows, who ministers to inmates at Nusakambangan’s prison, has revealed the last moments of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran’s lives.
Father Burrows, an Irish-born priest, was present at the executions as the religious adviser to Brazilian Gularte, who was arrested in 2004 while trying to enter Indonesia with six kilograms of cocaine stashed in his surfing gear.
The priest said the prisoners were tied with cable ties to crosses, their arms were outstretched and legs strapped at the bottom.
The religious advisers were allowed to stay for three minutes and afterwards they were told to sit and wait in a tent nearby.
“When they were being put on the cross for execution they were singing on the crosses and we were in a tent not too far away from the execution place trying to support them,” Father Burrows said.
“The people being executed were under a kind of roof. They were probably about four meters apart,” he said.
Father Burrows said they were singing hymns and the eight advisers in the tent were singing with them.
They sang Amazing Grace a few times and he said the Australians seemed to have the loudest voices.
3.31am — Shots fired, eight dead
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are dead.
The ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring were mercilessly executed by an Indonesian firing squad. Chan and Sukumaran, executed with seven other people also convicted of drugs charges, had spent their time in prison bent on rehabilitation.
The former trained as a priest, was recently ordained and on Monday married the young woman he loved, in a prison ceremony. The latter became an accomplished painter and completed an arts degree. Both worked to rehabilitate other jail inmates.
Their executions now leave tensions high between Australia and its regional neighbour, and two families in a nightmare of interminable anguish.
(P.S. I dug more information about Andrew Chan from Wikipedia too
Andrew Chan (12 January 1984 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian who was convicted inIndonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. In 2005, Chan was arrested atNgurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar. According to court testimonies of convicteddrug mules, Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were the co-ringleaders of the heroin smuggling operation from Indonesia to Australia. After a criminal trial on 14 February 2006, Chan was sentenced to execution by firing squad by the Denpasar District Court.
After lodging an appeal against his sentence, his appeal was dismissed by the Indonesian Supreme Court on 10 May 2011. His plea for clemency was rejected by thePresident of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, on 22 January 2015. The execution was carried out on 29 April 2015
...Chan married Febyanti Herewila, whom he met when she was visiting another prisoner, on 27 April 2015.[62][63] The prison governor has described Chan and Sukumaran as model prisoners and testified in court that they should not be executed because of the positive influence they have had. In an interview the governor stated that "Chan organises courses in prison, leads the English-language church service and is a mentor to many."[64] Chan became a Christian while in prison and led the English language Christian church service.
Chan said:[4]
...By order of the Indonesian government, Chan was executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015 at 12:25am WITA along with Sukumaran and six other prisoners. ...)
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