bali bombers trying to avoid bullets

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    By Indonesia correspondent Geoff Thompson

    The lawyers for the Bali bombers plan to lodge a constitutional court challenge against the way their clients are to be executed.

    The Muslim lawyers team which defends Amrozi bin Nuryhasim, Ali Ghufron and Iman Samudra say they will lodge a constitutional court challenge tomorrow arguing that the imminent executions of their clients by firing squad amount to torture.

    Earlier this month, Indonesia's Supreme Court ruled the appeal process in the case of the three Bali bombers had been exhausted, clearing the way for their executions.

    Lawyer Mahendra Data said that because their clients may be shot twice before they are dead, there is a potential for them to experience pain.

    During executions in Indonesia, condemned convicts are shot once by a firing squad and then again in the head at close range if the initial shots fail to kill.

    The lawyers also demand a formal decision from Supreme Court judges rather than the letter from court clerks, which inform them that their final appeals had been rejected.

    The lawyers say they will lodge the appeal tomorrow.

 
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