Bali Nine enter their final hours: Australian on death row weds his fiancée in prison as friend refuses to wear a blindfold so he can stare down killers as they prepare to face a firing squad today
- Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are set to be executed in Indonesia
- They have been on death row over a heroin smuggling plot for 10 years
- Australian pair met their families today and Chan married his fiancé
- Firing squad execution set to go ahead despite court agreeing to hear a legal challenge on May 12
Two Australian drug smugglers set to be executed by firing squad in Indonesia have entered their final hours.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are expected to be executed this evening and were visited by their emotional families in prison today.
The shooting is set to go ahead despite Indonesia's Constitutional Court agreeing to hear a legal challenge brought by the duo and setting a hearing date of May 12.
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Condemned Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have entered their final hours before their expected execution
Coffins were seen being brought into the prison ahead of the pair's execution, which is set for early on Wednesday morning
Chan and Sukumaran are part of the Bali Nine who were convicted in 2005 over a plot to smuggle around 18.2lbs of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
The pair, as well as other death row inmates, have remained defiant in their final hours inside the prison on Indonesia's 'death island', where coffins were seen arriving earlier this evening.
Chan married his fiancé of less than three months inside the prison today, as family paid what will be one of their last visits.
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Their wedding was held just months after the drugs ringleader proposed to his girlfriend at Kerobokan Prison.
Meanwhile Sukumaran indicated through a close friend that he will not wear a blindfold when he faces the firing squad because he wants to look his killers in the eye.
Leonard Arpan, lawyer for the two men, said he had lodged an appeal against the death sentences, but Indonesia's attorney general Muhammad Prasetyo said it would not stop the executions taking place.
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