As Indonesia executed eight criminals over drug related crimes, eye witnesses have revealed how the condemned conducted themselves.
The eight condemned individuals sang praise songs as they were led to their positions, and witnesses across the water also tearfully joined them in singing.
Nigerians executed early on Wednesday in Indonesia.
The executed convicts consisted of two Australians, a Brazilian, four from Africa and on Indonesian. They had been led from their prison to a clearing on a prison island to meet their fate at midnight on Tuesday, April 28.
According to GMA news, the condenmed all rejected the blindfolds and raised their voices to sing. one of the songs was the world famous Christian hymn published in 1779 by John Newton, Amazing Grace.
The husband of Pastor Christie Buckingham, who gave spiritual guidance to one of the Australians in his final moments, said his wife told him the men conducted themselves with “dignity and strength until the end”.
“She told me the eight of them walked out onto the killing field singing songs of praise,” Rob Buckingham told 3AW radio in Australia.
At Cilacap, a town located across the water from the high-security Nusakambangan island, a small band of mourners held a candlelight vigil, and also sang “Amazing Grace”.
The song filled out the night sky, while one man cried out and asked the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to have mercy. Another supporter read out the names of each inmate one by one.
One man, Owen Pomana, a former convict turned pastor prayed and told the people that the convicts had nothing to fear.
After the inmates had been executed their bodies were returned from the island in coffins, some covered in embroidery.
Their family members were seen crying, while friends and supporters were on hand to give them a helping hand as they prepare to bury their loved ones.
Four Nigerians, Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, Okwudili Oyatanze, Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise and Martin Anderson were executed yesterday.
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