Indonesia disregarded last-minute appeals and executed 8 drug
traffickers including 4 Nigerians.
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’.
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