Indonesia will execute the Bali bombers on death row in early November, the spokesman of the Indonesian attorney general's office said today.
The three men - Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Ghufron - were sentenced to death in 2003 for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people.
The attacks by the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah were intended to scare away foreigners as part of their drive to make Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, part of a larger Islamic caliphate.
The men are currently held in a maximum security prison island, where officials said the executions will take place.
The three, who were convicted for playing key roles in the bombings, have refused to seek clemency from Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after the Supreme Court rejected their final appeals, saying they want to die as martyrs.
In an interview last year, the militants said they had no regrets, except for the fact that some Muslims had died in the blasts.
The two blasts on Bali's Kuta strip on Oct. 12th, 2002 - one at Paddy's Bar and the other at the Sari Club - killed 202 people including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens, and dealt a severe blow to the island's tourist industry.
In an earlier statement from their lawyers, the men said their blood would "become the light for the faithful ones and burning hell fire for the infidels and hypocrites".
Reuters