JUST before midnight (3am AEST), the prisoners — including Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran — were led from their isolation cells in Besi prison — one of Nuskambangan’s seven prisons — down to a police station on the water’s edge.
Behind the prison is a new purpose-built firing range which was floodlit for the eight to be executed.
Waiting for each condemned person was their own 12-man firing squad, raised out of Brimob, the paramilitary police unit. Their SSI automatic rifles were set to single shot.
Convention dictated that three of the shooters in each squad would be issued a live round and the others blanks (though in the January executions at this same site, a mortician who attended to several of the bodies insisted they had been shot with only one bullet).
The eight dead were Indonesian Zainal Abidin, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerians Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Okwudili Oyatanze, Ghanaian Martin Anderson. Read more
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