Come Wednesday, April 29th, Nigerians - Martin Anderson, 50, Okwudili Oyatanze, 41, Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50, and Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47, will be executed in Indonesia just after the stroke of midnight. They were found guilty of drug trafficking and will be shot to death by a firing squad.
The men are expected to be led from their isolated cells in Death Island through a wildly dense tropical forest to a place called Nirbaya - or more appropriately known as Death Valley.
The condemned pair will be given white clothing to wear, which symbolises the afterlife, before
beginning their fatal trek and are given the option to be blindfolded with a piece of fabric before facing the firing squad who will be lined up anywhere from five to 10 metres in front of them.
The confronting decisions continue for the death row inmates with the opportunity to choose whether to stand, sit or kneel before a cross is placed over their hearts acting as a target for the 12 riflemen - of which nine will have blanks and only three will have live rounds.
Each prisoner is offered 3 minutes to calm down but if necessary their hands or feet will be tied to a 3m high pole or worse still - a wooden execution chair.
12 marksmen are then ordered to fire at them. And after the shooting, if doctors confirm that there are still sign of life in them, the commander will shoot the inmates in the head.
With barely few hours left till they are killed, in harrowing scenes yesterday, some families of the nine condemned drug smugglers arrived Death Island to pay what's expected to be a final visit to their loved ones. One of the convicted, Myuran Sukumaran's sister, Brintha, could not stifle her wails as she made her way through the crowds of people outside the port gates. At one point, DailyMail reports that she collapsed and had to be supported by other family members, including her mother.
Moments later, another convicted, Andrew Chan's mother Helen arrived outwardly sobbing and had to be carried away from the media scrum as police officers led the family through the crowd.
Sukuraman's monther (centre) |
Sukuraman's sister |
Andrew Chan and now wife Febyanti |
Chan's brother Michael announced the news to reporters, describing the wedding day as tough and happy at the same time.
'We'd just like to celebrate that with him tomorrow as well so hopefully the president will still show some compassion, some mercy so that these two young people can carry on with their lives," he said. 'It's in the president's hands.'
Febyanti |
Andrew Chan and Sukumaran |
Hmmm this is too painful
ReplyDeleteMen this people needs to change this law biko...that's cruel,,only God reserves d power to give n take life....really painful...
ReplyDeleteSom pipo will read dis and still go about committing crimes hoping they never get caught. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
ReplyDeleteThat was y I sed many Nigerians will still be executed, but widodo, even God, forgives us d worst sin,imagine if almighty God shud count your sin,u will not live,it's like widodo is playing God,is he without sin?look d mother of d young man,hmmmm
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