Six of the Bali Nine drug mules are now to be executed by firing squad in Indonesia after losing their latest legal appeal.
In addition to Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran who were supposedly the ringleaders of the group, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Si Yi Chen Scott Rush and Matthew Norman are now also to be put on death row.
The only woman in the group, Renae Lawrence did not appeal her 20 year sentence and so escaped the latest round of harsh sentencing.
Under Indonesian law, which seems to leave everybody a little confused, the appeals of the defendants were rejected and their sentences actually increased above and beyond what the prosecution had requested.
The nine Australians were arrested and charged with drug trafficking in Indonesia in April 2005 with heroin found strapped to their bodies.
The move is sure to draw into harsh relief the standards of drug law punishment in Indonesia which the government there maintains is a deterent.
Despite the deterant effect, several drug traffickers have been arrested since the high profile Bali Nine case.
