Pictures of the
dead being buried and details from their last minutes before being executed
have been released to the media. According to the pastors who were with them in
their final hours, Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and the other 6 death row
inmates declined to wear blindfolds and were singing as they were shot by a
13-member firing squad in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The
8 men chose to face their executioners and spent their last minutes on earth
praising God and singing songs which included ‘Amazing Grace’. On Wednesday
morning, Pastor Christie Buckingham – who read Chan and Sukumaran their last
rites – said the 8 death row inmates walked out onto the killing field singing
religious songs in the moments before they were executed. Pastor Buckingham
said the men conducted themselves with ‘dignity and strength until the end’.
Another pastor, Karina de Vega, said it was a ‘beautiful experience’
Indonesia disregarded last-minute
appeals and executed 8 drug traffickers including 4 Nigerians.
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