Bombers

[den]

Amrozi, the first of the Bali bombers captured last October, has been found guilty and was sentenced to death today. He is appealing The other two are still in court. I fear executing them will turn them into Jamaal Islamir martyrs.

Police in Jakarta have confirmed that 10 died and 147 were injured at the Marriot bombing this week. They know who did it and are tracking down the others.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Appealing? On what grounds? I find myself wondering when Indonesians will finally get the idea through thier heads that JI wants to turn Indonesia into what Afghanistan used to be.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

It's still - at least, I assume it is in Indonesian law - his right to appeal any rulings. Regardless of how obvious it may or may not be that he's guilty, once you start picking and choosing who has the full set of legal rights you start heading down an extremely dangerous path.

You could capture Osama himself and have him tying up appeals courts in the US for five or six judicial levels, and allowing it would still be the right thing to do. Some things you don't deny.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

You always have to have a ground for appealing,
though, be it bad council, conflict of interest, or
other reasons. In the USA, at least. Grounds for
appeal can be denied too. Sometimes you get
only one trial.

It's possible that he has grounds for appeal. I just
wonder what they are. Of course, Indonesian law
may give you an instant appeal, no matter what
grounds. I have no idea.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

He's appealing the death sentence. The Guilty verdict sticks.

He's looking at the firing squad or life in prison.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

on the legal ground,
which is ture in most contrys
that one cant be conviced and punshed
by a law that came into efect after the
crime was commited..

i know this is a bad example,
a realy bad one..

but would you like to be put to deth
for littering or speeding yesterday
when the law wasnt even on the books
till today?