Indonesia To Execute Bali Bombers In August
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Densapar, Indonesia (AHN) - Indonesian authorities said Tuesday the three terrorist militants who were convicted in the bloody 2002 Bali bombings, will be executed in August. The three men identified as Iman Samudra, Amrozi and Ali Gufron, have been on a death row for two years after they were convicted in the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, most of them tourists. Made Suratmaha, head of Densapar's district attorney office told Reuters. "Last week, we sent letters to the convicts, their families and their lawyers to notify preparation for the execution." He said there is no definite date on the execution but it will happen around the third week of next month or at the end of August. Indonesia usually executes criminals by a firing squad, but the exact location and time are kept secret. He adds, "Based on the law, the date of execution cannot be published until it is done." Under the country's law, death row convicts are executed in the place where they have been tried. But the attorney-general's office has requested the execution to be held in the prison island of Nusakambangan in central Java where the militants are currently detained in the wake of suicide blasts in October 1, 2005.
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