JAKARTA —

An Indonesian court rejected Tuesday a request by three convicted Bali bombers to be executed by traditional Islamic-style beheading instead of by firing squad. The chief judge of the Constitutional Court, Mohammad Mahfud, said the nine-member panel of judges unanimously rejected a legal appeal filed by the lawyers of the bombers that execution by firing squad is inhumane.
 
‘‘There is no single method of execution that could not trigger pain. Every method of execution, if done in a wrong way, could lead to painful suffering. The pain caused by the execution is only the consequence of the punishment, not as kind of torture,’’ said Mahfud. The 2002 Bali nightclub bombings killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign holidaymakers. Amrozi Nurhasyim, Ali Gufron, and Imam Samudra have exhausted all legal procedures and are scheduled to be executed soon.

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  timorborder at 07:23 PM JST - 21st October

  Good on you court. These clowns want to be beheaded for the legitimacy that a beheading would give them in a religious sense. Getting the firing squad makes them no different from the common criminal. In their warped minds (and their perverted sense of what makes a good muslim), getting the sword (a beheading) would raise them to the status of martyrs in the eyes of other extremists.

  Don't give in to these clowns.

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  SuperLib at 10:00 PM JST - 21st October

  Will the Australian government be brought up on charges since they created the motivation for the bombers?

  Or something like that...

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  neverknow2 at 12:17 AM JST - 22nd October

  SuperLib go back where you came from. How can you make such a comment when 202 people lost their lives?

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  KitsuneYoukai at 12:58 AM JST - 22nd October

  I second that...I love the answer by the court that it is a consequence of the punishment and not torture. Great response! Why should they be allowed their choice of death when all those people were not given their choice to live????

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