Bali Nine executions: Live updates as Australians say goodbye to their families ahead of execution

A friend of Myuran Sukumaran, 34, said he wants to look his killers in the eye when he dies and does not want his mother “to think he’s a weeping mess” in his final moments.

He and Andrew Chan, 31, are expected to have their death sentences carried out overnight after almost 10 years in prison in Indonesia for drug smuggling.

Here are the latest updates:

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• Australian prisoners could be dead by Wednesday


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• British grandmother on death row resigned to fate


• Australian convicts lose last-minute appeals

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They are expected to be shot dead by a firing squad in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to a local funeral director who said he was instructed to inscribe their names and the date of death on crosses.

Bali Nine pair face execution

The Indonesian government has not confirmed the time but gave the pair the legally required 72 hours’ notice of their executions on Saturday, meaning they could go ahead as early as tonight.

Sukumaran and Chan refused to sign their own execution warrants on Saturday, saying their deaths would be unjust, as Australia continued last-minute attempts to save them.

Indonesian authorities dismissed claims judges in their case offered to take bribes for more lenient sentences, saying that even if corruption was found it would not affect the death sentences. Workers load coffins into a lorry ahead of the execution of nine prisoners in Indonesia

Julie Bishop, the Australian Foreign Minister, deepened a diplomatic row with Jakarta by saying that the “very serious” allegations called into question the integrity of the process.

“They have been rehabilitated in a most remarkable way over the past ten years and are genuinely remorseful for their serious crimes,” she said in a statement.


“Nothing can be gained and much will be lost if these two young Australians are executed." Activists hold a banner during a protest in front of the Indonesian embassy in Manila on April 27, 2015

Sukumaran and Chan were convicted in 2006 as part of the “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang who were arrested on the island for trying to smuggle 8kg of heroin to Australia. Their six Australian co-conspirators were jailed for between 18 years and life in Indonesia.

The pair are part of a separate group of drug convicts, including others from Brazil, Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria and Indonesia, due to be imminently executed.

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