Slow, lonely death kept out of sight April 24, 2005 From:
Anonymous ... only two live rounds are fired by the squad / File FOR Indonesia's death row inmates, execution usually comes on a deserted beach or remote jungle at the hands of a paramilitary firing squad - and it rarely comes fast.
Under direction of the prosecutor's office and after three days' notice to the prisoner, about 10 to 13 police are selected from the elite Mobile Brigade after a practice session shooting human-shaped targets. The time and place will be chosen under the direction of the prosecutor but it will usually be early morning and out of public sight.
If it is on a beach, the convict will be handcuffed to a pole placed in the sand.
The officers will not know who fired the fatal shots. They choose from a row of guns and only two contain live rounds.
"With a firing squad, there is often a time lapse until they actually die,"a spokesman said.
"There is usually around a three to five minute (period) until death."
