Barring any last-minute appeal from around the world, the 10 drug convicts sentenced to death in Indonesia will be executed just after the stroke of midnight on Wednesday (3am AEST), it has been confirmed.
The date - April 29 - became official when a local funeral director in Cilacap, the nearest port to Nusakambangan, or Death Island, was instructed to inscribe the names of those to be shot by firing squad and the date of their deaths.
Chan and Sukumaran and others refused to sign their execution warrants when they were given 72 hours notice of their deaths during official proceedings on Saturday, saying they believed it would be unjust to kill them.
When asked to sign his papers, Sukumaran refused and told officials he believed he had been rehabilitated and that he had been doing positive work in prison.
"When he received the 72 hours notice, he remained dignified and peaceful. He spoke with courtesy and clarity to a hushed room explaining why he felt to proceed to execution was unjust," his lawyer, Julian McMahon, told News Corp.
Funeral director, Suhendra Putro, on Sunday was busily stencilling crosses and putting finishing touches to writing the names of the Christian victims and the dates of their deaths, reports The Herald Sun.
As well as the names of the two Australians, the names of Brazilian national, Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerian, Okwudili Ayotanze, and Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines, were also written in white on the wooden crosses. The date '29.04.15' was also written in white ink and the letters 'RIP'.
Raheem Agbaje Salami and Martin Anderson, two othe Nigerians, are also to be executed but as non-Christians, their coffins will not be adorned with crosses.
This was further confirmed by Utomo Karim, the lawyer for a Nigerian prisoner facing the firing squad.
"Each convict on death row was called in one by one, for between 30 minutes and one hour, it varied," Mr Karim said.
"My client (Nigerian Raheem Agbaje Salami) was notified of the day of the execution, it will be (just after midnight on) Tuesday night."
Mr Karim added that the six others were also told the countdown to their execution had started
Source:Tribune
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