Bali bomber lawyer predicts execution will be soon
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![Ali Ghufron (L), Amrozi bin Nuryhasim (C) and Imam Samudra (R) have all indicated they have no intention of seeking presidential clemency. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/indon_balibombers_afp_file.jpg "Ali Ghufron (L), Amrozi bin Nuryhasim (C) and Imam Samudra (R) have all indicated they have no intention of seeking presidential clemency. [AFP]")
Ali Ghufron (L), Amrozi bin Nuryhasim (C) and Imam Samudra (R) have all indicated they have no intention of seeking presidential clemency. [AFP]
A lawyer representing the Bali bombers on death row in Indonesia predicts his clients will be executed within a month now that the country's Supreme Court has rejected their final appeal.
Our correspondent in Jakarta, Geoff Thompson, reports all the formal legal avenues open to the Bali bombers have now been exhausted.
While Amrozi bin Nuryhasim, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron or Mukhlas have all indicated they have no intention of seeking presidential clemency, Indonesia's Attorney General's Department says the process to seek their final answers to that question must still be pursued.
The bombers have so far refused to accept or sign documents confirming that position.
Their lawyer, Mahendradatta, believes the three men will soon face a firing squad.
"And for me, I think, I predict not more than one month," he said.
The bombers are expected to be shot on Nusakambangan Island, where they are currently imprisoned.
No intervention
Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, says his government won't intervene to stop the executions of three of the Bali bombers in Indonesia.
Mr Rudd says he's not been brief on an execution date.
"Together with the Liberal party our policy has been, one of stated universal opposition to the death penalty," he said.
"But in the case of foreign terrorists we are not in the business of intervening on any of their behalfs."
Jail for life
The father of an Australian killed in the 2002 bombings says he'd prefer the three men committed of the crime remain in jail for life - and not executed.
202 people, including 88 Australians, died in the bombings.
Former Adelaide magistrate, Brian Deegan, whose 22-year-old son Josh was killed in the bombings, says he considers capital punishment inhumane - and is worried an execution may send the wrong message.
"It does have a lesser capacity of turnign what I consider to be low level mass murderers into some form of martyrs or saints in the eyes of followers of different political persausions," he said.
